Word: protagionist
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...Africa who rise from the bottom to the top with nothing, because he is young and a black and African" fears he will not survive the president's arbitrary purges. A well-meaning missionary is beheaded by the very people he is trying to educate. And the protagionist's store is seized because he is an East Asian and thus a "traitor...
Salim, the protagionist, is an archetypal Naipaul character--East Indian, sallow, passive and alienated. Salim's lethargy reflects his anxiety about the ultimate, senseless violence. As the president's forces creep deeper into the interior, Salim becomes more desperate. He tries twice to rouse himself, via an affair and a flight to London where illusions of a Western civilized arcadia lie. But neither succeeds as a safety-value. Salim renounces all hope and returns to Africa, only to find that the violent abyss has widened...
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