bend river
In Bend of the River by V. J. naipul each character has a different personal history and a reason for leaving their homeland. Different circumstances and promises have made their journey to Africa, something to remember. The place they settle and start their families up might be called home forever. In hopes of finding a better life to settle into they realize life in Africa isn't as Salim the main character and the narrator moves to Africa to make a better living for himself and he buys a business. As he accepts the deal, he knows he's going into a place where it's different than India. The food, language, lifestyle will completely have to change from what he was use to in India. As he arrives in Africa, all there is destruction and he is nervous of the Africans and doesn't take anyone for granted. Salim as he adjusts to a new place he will call home now, fits into the neighborhood slowly. As life in India he has to deal with the hot weather and heavy downpours of rain. Salim wasn't a rich man in India, so he didn't live in an expensive house back home. Over here in Africa now, he still is living in a flat but in a condition worse off that has water problems and the electricity would go on and off. Just l
Just like Indar everyone had high hopes for her. Marrying Salim might be a surprise to everyone especially when she was a pharmacist and rich while Salim was still trying to get his business going. Nazruddin is a rich businessman who has traveled to other parts of the country, and all you hear is good news about his travels. Even though he might have failed in parts of his journeys, he will only bring the good out in it. He knew that he would never be able to compete to Indar's standards, no matter how much money and successful his business was in Africa. Now they are living toghter and all their problems they will solve toghter. Nazruddin's daughter Kareisha was just like Indar was born rich. He gets surprised because Salim always thought of Indar as a high class person who would amount to something big. Being rich and famous didnt mean nothing in Africa as everyone learned they hard way. ike in India there were no roads just basically paths, but the difference was Salim knew what path led where, in Africa he doesn't. Indar takes him into the domain, which is a high tech place where the elite lived. Indar's status though leads Salim into he domain. Indar who was Salim friend in India, who was also rich. Salim always had thought Indar would go to study abroad in London, which he did. Nazruddin probably wants to keep his perfect ego and his accomplishments higher than anyone else does so he tries to make everything look good, and so we wouldn't think of him as a failure.
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