The Wretched Of The Earth

Through taking this class, it allowed me to objectively look at various topics in regards to society, such as the phenomenon of colonialism and the current realities of the developing world. Over the past few weeks, we have been discussing the life of Franz Fanon and his novel The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon wrote this book in order to give a ‘psychiatric and psychological analysis of the dehumanizing effects that colonization had on the natives in order to establish a social movement for the decolonization of the people.’ The Wretched of the Earth was written several weeks before Fanon’s death, but was published posthumously in 1961. In addition to this novel, Fanon also wrote another book, Black Skin, White Masks, in which I will take general ideas from and relate them back to the course as well as the book. Before …show more content…
In my opinion, I felt that the most intriguing thing about his story was his stance on colonialism in terms of violence. Fanon makes an assertion in this chapter about how decolonization is always a violent process because of the violence used to start the colonization in the first place. According to Fanon, Decolonization must include violence because the “exploitation of the native the settler occurred through the use of bayonets and cannons.” The purpose of the this whole chapter is to state the need for the natives to fight for control of their homeland and to decrease/destroy the social divisions that were put in place to divide the natives both physically and mentally. This all became evident to me within the first few pages of this chapter and I began to understand colonialism as well as the current issues surrounding the native people of the developing world as a whole. In addition, I also believe that this chapter is extremely important because it is used a foundation for the subsequent chapters of the