Not only the story of the ‘The Lonely Londoners’ sends a message to its readers. It is also the language of the novel that successfully communicates with the readership. By the manipulation of Standard English or by using some form of Creolized English‚ Selvon distance himself from the mainstream culture of the United Kingdom‚ the power that colonized his homelands for several hundreds of years. The novel is targeted to groups of readers‚ the black and also the white people. The white readers can
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fear; fear of being discovered‚ fear of ‘not making it’‚ fear of not being accepted‚ fear of the unknown situations. These elements are exposed in George Lamming’s novel The Emigrants‚ Edward Brathwaite’s poem The Emigrants‚ and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and “When Greek Meets Greek”. The common link within each of these works is that they all portray individuals who have left their native West Indian homelands in search of a better life. In Lamming’s novel‚ the emigrants are unknowingly
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INTRODUCTION In literary works‚ characters usually illuminate the overt and covert themes of the story‚ the setting‚ the plots and subsequent subplots. The literary works’ creators need characters so as to emphasize on the major issues affecting our contemporary society. In his short stories anthology‚ ‘Ways of sunlight’‚ Samuel Selvon uses characters to present the themes and explain the actions they undertake in their lives. Using five short stories from the anthology we are able to understand
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LIT 4188 15 April 2010 Let’s Get Together: Gilroy’s Question of Solidarity within the Social Dynamic of Corregidora and The Lonely Londoners The concept of identity can be illustrated as a complex assembly‚ and more specifically as a group of collected observations. It can be derived from one’s view of self as a subject‚ to one’s view of self in relation to the other‚ and finally one’s identity in terms of relationships to others with shared sets of attributes‚ vernaculars‚ conditions
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both writers of the Black British writer movement. Although they wrote during and about different time periods‚ in the English history‚ one might say that both Philips and Selvon tackled a similar theme in their books A Distant Shore and The Lonely Londoners. That theme being the phenomenon of the ‘outsider’ in the community. This essay will discuss this theme in relation to the previous mentioned books by comparing and contrasting the main protagonistswhile also looking at social and political
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“Lonely Hearts” “Lonely Hearts” by Wendy Cope is a statement on the disconnectedness and isolation of modern city living. By showing the reader five different people all searching for love‚ all in the same area of North London‚ all of whom have different but very basic needs in a love interest‚ Cope is highlighting the fact that current societal means of meeting ones mate have changed. In addition the use of the villanelle style of closed form poetry gives this the presentation of a Greek chorus
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Lonely planet Introduction: * Type of organization: Lonely Planet has a internal culture in there company. That means that employees are free to be themselves‚ to exchange ideas and try new approaches to problems. The work space in informal and open‚ so that people can communicate easily with each other. * History: The company was founded in 1972 by the couple Tony and Maureen Wheeler. Their passion is traveling. They went on vacation and they wrote a traveling book so that they can
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The poem “The Lonely Land” by A.J.M Smith can be compared with the poem by Marilyn Dumont called “Not Just a Platform for My Dance”. Smith’s poem‚ “The Lonely Land”‚ describes the land in detail. He says that even though the land is not perfect‚ it has its own beauty. “Not Just a Platform for My Dance” states that the land is not just considered as a place‚ but as something to learn from. Dumont also explains how the land teaches us everything we know. Even though both of the poems are about
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The Lonely Wanderer The poem "The Wanderer‚" is written in many different methods which allow readers to perceptibly understand its many aspects. The poet’s vivid description creates imagery to better stimulate the agony of a wretched wanderer. It is written with many uses of assonance along with alliteration. It also has two different points of view‚ one is the wanderer and the other is the narrator. Beyond that‚ the poet expresses the complex issues within the poem through a simplified form
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stay there‚ because he will have memories of his childhood and of this house and family. Sometimes Albert walks around to find garbage and collects trash each day‚ or sometimes goes in his backyard where he lies on the grass and thinks about how lonely his life is; how he hated his wife‚ his foreign children‚ and the rest of his family. That explosion took his whole family away from him. He is the only one left in his family. He has no one to talk to‚ so he usually argues with himself to see who
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