Essay On Season Of Migration To The North

The book Season of Migration to the North is written by Tayeb Salih, is about an unnamed man who returns to his village located in Sudan. After seven years, he discovers a new face among the village, a mysterious man named Mustafa Sa'eed. A man who is similar to the narrator but yet different. Mustafa brings new changes among the narrator's life through the use of violence coming from his past which contributes to the present. The violence Salih presents in the text not only affects the narrator but other characters in the text. Ann Hammond, Sheila Greenwood, Isabella Seymour and Jean Morris played a role in a violent scene with Mustafa which affected himself and the narrator's life. The death of Ann, Sheila, and Isabella were all suicides. During the relationship with Ann Hammond, Mustafa and her would act and pretend they were different people. They would not act like normal, she would pretend she was an arab or a slave, even though she was a European. When she killed herself she has written a note directed to Mustafa. Isabella Seymour a married woman who he had an affair with ended up killing herself over him. Sheila Greenwood, a waitress whose parents never wanted to see her with a black man. Suicides they committed themselves over Mustafa who during the time had been with the three women after each of their deaths. In each relationship he was a different man. A man who did not have any feelings for neither …show more content…
Whereas the violence in this novel was all seemed to be caused by Mustafa’s actions towards the European women, every single one of their deaths contributed to the narrator’s accusation of Mustafa killing Hosna bint Mahmoud, which lead to her murdering Wad Rayyes. It caused other characters to commit violent actions towards to one another or to their own