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"A way in the World, a collection of essays by V.s. Naipaul, published in 1994, travels around the the Caribbean, dealing with the battles between the Spanish and British to colonize Trinidad and Venezuela.
One particular episode describes the visit of a cruise ship to Trinidad in the thirties through a travel article, "The Shadowed Livery", 'Portraying subject people as a whole unto themselves", written by an Englishman, Foster Morris.
Although the reputation of the writer diminishes," it was strange that a man so much in search of his own voice should have been the one to help me find mine,"Naipaul wrote.
As an undergraduagte at Oxford University, Naipaul sent Morris a manuscript of his first novel. Morris wrote back right away,"..abandon it immediately.".
Naipaul followed this advice, and later,published his first novel. He kept up a relationship with Morris until the older author died, seeing Morris's star fall whild Naipaul enjoyed increasing success.
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Betty-Jeanne Korson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Political/social rights fight
Yes
Plotlet:
- fighting for social change
- minorities fighting for rights
- fights between different pol/social groups
- slavery
job/profession:
- artist
Ethnic/Relig. of subject (inside)
- Asian, other
Gender/Class story?
- immigrant story
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Kind of living:
- general poverty story
If this is a culture clash:
- visiting a different culture
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
ethnic of society (outside)
- Asian, general
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- Other Asian
Nationality
- Central/South American
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- physically sick
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 9 ()
The Americas (not US):
Yes
Island?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Book makes you feel?
- depressed
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- race
- war
- wicked white people
Writer's slant towards subject:
- neutral
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
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