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...caves is good-the painful, amusing attempts of a poor young Indian to impress two foreign ladies are nearly successful. Only one thing mars the picnic. Miss Quested, in a disturbed state, leaves the party and they return to Chandrapore without her-to discover that she has accused Dr. Aziz of attempted rape...
...describes the manners of the educated Indians and the English civil servants who rule the town of Chandrapore. An informal tea party introduces us to a circle of characters: the impulsive, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian who desires friendship with the English; the host, Mr. Fielding, a wise English teacher who is immediately attracted to Aziz. And two Englishwomen: Miss Adela Quested is a frigid young thing, engaged to an English magistrate in Chandrapore; and the mother of her fiance is Mrs. Moore. They accept Aziz's invitation picnic with him at the Marabar caves...
...British club, Fielding-convinced that Aziz is innocent-defends him against the noble hysteria of whites who think that one of their own has been insulted by a nigger. He is ostracized and must turn to be Indians in the town, who are enraged over Aziz's arrest. This club scene is not as well handled as others, with the exception of an eloquent speech by Mrs. Moore on the terrifying echo in the caves...
...with an amplification of the Chandrapore tea party (Chapter 7 of the book), pitching together the bearers of Eastern and Western culture. The second act ably gets across the difficult scene in the Marabar Caves, where a young English miss neurotically imagines that she has been raped by Dr. Aziz, the thin-skinned Moslem. The action moves on to the British club and the shocked reaction of the other colonials, ends with the novel's trial scene (in the book, 13 more chapters follow). The confused girl withdraws her charge against Aziz, but at the final curtain the Indian...
...Aziz al Haj, editorial writer for Baghdad's pro-Communist Ittihad al Shaab, protested that his paper had sought only to serve the country by exposing plots against it. Kassem brusquely cut him off. "Be quiet!" he snapped. "Every paper claims to be the only sincere one. Sons of the people are all one force. I follow the whole, not a certain party. Any party is a minority, and let there be no mistake: the people can crush the anarchists...