Professor Garret

Half a Life Half a Life is a novel written by V.S.Naipaul in 2001. The novel revolves around the story of Willie Somerset Chandran, whose father is a Brahmin from the Hindu caste system and his mother a Dalit. Willie's middle name 'Somerset comes from the name of an English writer called Somerset Maugham who had visited Willie's father in a temple once. Willie's has a strained relationship with his father and decides to leave India so as to go and study in London, England. He lives the life of a poor immigrant while in London but later writes a book and manages to publish it. The publishing of his book leads [to Willie receiving a letter from a fan called Ana, wh admires the book and wants to meet Willie. Ana and Willie fall in love and Willie goes back with Ana to her homeland in Africa. The novel ends with Willie leaving his 18-year stay in Africa and going to live with his sister in Berlin. The book was written by the author to explore the life of an immigran...

Ananse Ananse is a trickster spider, which often pranks and even takes human shapes, which is one of the primary characters in West African and Caribbean folklore The poem has been divided into two parts. In the first part, Ananse thinks and memorizes the native culture of his country which once existed but has been lost now In the second part, Ananse weaves and recreates the lost culture by binding past stories, cultures, words, songs of Africa and thus like God, he brings dead African culture to life. In every stanza, Ananse changes its form and presents something different In his poem "Ananse", Kamau Brathwaite has tried to challenge the canons of language set by colonialists He challenges these rules by breaking away from them He believes that the culture which had been destructed by the colonial powers can be regained only by rejecting the rules of language set by colonialists The very title of the poem "Ananse depicts this deviation The correct spelling of...