Jaren Foreman
IB English III
Ms. Rowe
6/13/16
A Land Divided The novel, Sseason of Mmigration to the Nnorth, the author Tayeb Salih told the story of Sudan, a small cast of characters play out their lives representing the greater nation as a whole and in this Salihy depicts how the country falls into disaster. Sudan was a timebomb, it sat armed ever since the British colonization when their culture was destroyed and their people divided, as their customs had been replaced leaving them with nothing, this is all shown through the nameless narrator and protagonist and the people he interacts with.
Sudan is an African nation in the mid-saharan and also happens to be among the largest countries in Africa or at least it was before it split in two. Before the divide the people of Sudan were diverse, with a primarily Arabian north and a more African south, …show more content…
The fact that he was nameless makes him an enigma as his part is no finite unlike other characters and that he stand for more than one thing which would be the Sudanese people as a whole. Names themselves hold power as they dignify people apart and the absence of a name means there is nothing to dignify that person which does not make him or her nobody but everybody as it makes them a more general character in which there are no specifications. This was Salih’s intent as in order to effectively show the story of Sudan, the people had to be portrayed somehow, showing the narrator embrace the western influences as some may have back then only to come home and struggle to identify himself as Sudanese was a real plight and a tragedy that befell all people in Sudan after
IB English III
Ms. Rowe
6/13/16
A Land Divided The novel, Sseason of Mmigration to the Nnorth, the author Tayeb Salih told the story of Sudan, a small cast of characters play out their lives representing the greater nation as a whole and in this Salihy depicts how the country falls into disaster. Sudan was a timebomb, it sat armed ever since the British colonization when their culture was destroyed and their people divided, as their customs had been replaced leaving them with nothing, this is all shown through the nameless narrator and protagonist and the people he interacts with.
Sudan is an African nation in the mid-saharan and also happens to be among the largest countries in Africa or at least it was before it split in two. Before the divide the people of Sudan were diverse, with a primarily Arabian north and a more African south, …show more content…
The fact that he was nameless makes him an enigma as his part is no finite unlike other characters and that he stand for more than one thing which would be the Sudanese people as a whole. Names themselves hold power as they dignify people apart and the absence of a name means there is nothing to dignify that person which does not make him or her nobody but everybody as it makes them a more general character in which there are no specifications. This was Salih’s intent as in order to effectively show the story of Sudan, the people had to be portrayed somehow, showing the narrator embrace the western influences as some may have back then only to come home and struggle to identify himself as Sudanese was a real plight and a tragedy that befell all people in Sudan after