The Novel Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories‚ as a series of sketches‚ and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore‚ although each chapter is dominated by a single character‚ those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book‚ all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator
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Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul The History of Trinidad Trinidad was inhabited by Carib and Arawak people long before Christopher Columbus arrived‚ but the recorded history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Spanish. Both islands were encountered by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498. Tobago changed hands between the British‚ French‚ Dutch and Courlanders‚ but eventually ended up in British hands. Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797‚ but
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examination of oneself and one’s community. Writers have also frequently concentrated on former oral and social customs‚ so as to examine carefully the fragment they assimilate in the advancement of modern-day society and consciousness. In both Miguel Street and Beka Lamb the impact of colonisation that influenced the major themes such as the issue of identity‚ exile and migration‚ and women‚ will be epitomised by comparing and contrasting. Beka Lamb was issued in 1982‚ the year subsequent to independence
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1 General Title + explanation : Miguel street The story is about people that live in Miguel street Author + background : V.S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul‚ TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Bhumihar Brahmin[1][2] known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire’s colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction‚ such as travel writing and essays. Naipaul was
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April 2013 V.S. Naipaul The Effect of Colonialism in V.S Naipaul’s Miguel Street “The man is so colonized that he abandons his native Trinidadian identity” (Beck‚ 2002). Although pertaining to the character B. Wordsworth‚ in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street‚ this quote can be used to describe the very meaning of the book itself. It can be used to provide a clear picture of what was happening in British occupied Trinidad. Other characters such as George‚ a raging drunk who beat his wife and children‚ Elias
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S. NAIPAUL’S MIGUEL STREET What is the role of the creative artist in countries such as ours? Novelist V.S Naipaul raises this question in the story of B. Wordsworth‚ one of the stories in Miguel Street‚ a 1959 book of Trini characters. "Trinidadians are more recognizably ’characters’ than people in England"‚ said Naipaul in an August ‚1958 piece in the Times Literary Supplement. The "characters" in Miguel Street’s portrait gallery include "Man Man" and "Bolo"‚ both of whom are
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Description/Synopsis: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad “V.S.” Naipaul was born in Trinidad on 17th August 1932‚ the descendant of indentured labourers shipped from India‚ this dispossessed child of the Raj has come on a long and marvellous journey. His upbringing familiarised him with every sort of deprivation‚ material and cultural. A scholarship to Oxford brought him to this country. Nothing sustained him afterwards except the determination‚ often close to despair‚ to become a writer. Against all likelihood
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society‚ we can see that the female population has more jobs than the male population. I am not saying that the females are more intelligent than the males. This is because there are more males who roam the street and idle the time they have. Most of these males are from the inner-city. “Miguel Street‚” by V.S. Naipaul is a book of short stories about people living in the inner-city and the situations and events they experience on a daily basis. After reading the first three stories within the book‚ I
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insecurities. They both protect us and restrain us from reaching our potentials. Miguel Chico’s doubts in his family‚ and their religion leave him unable or unwilling to connect to either of them‚ although he is drawn to both of them. The duality of Maria’s great ability for joy and her refusal to experience it after becoming a Seventh Day Adventist distances Miguel Chico from both religion and his family. Miguel Chico is deeply attached to Maria as a child. She has always been a part of his
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