The Lonely Londoners Questions and Answers
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How are shattered illusions presented in The Lonely Londoners?
Shattered illusions are directly related to the main theme (and the appropriate title) of this novel: loneliness in London (especially felt by immigrants from West India). The illusions that are...
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What are the experiences the Caribbean immigrants had to endure in Britain in the novel The Lonely Londoners?
An experience that becomes thematic for some of the Afro-Caribbean male characters in this novel is that of being a "token" friend or lover for the white Londoners. For example, on page 109, Moses...
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Provide a critical analysis of the novel The Lonely Londoners.
Samuel Selvon's 1956 novel, The Lonely Londoners, describes the lives of Caribbean immigrants in London after World War II. Many of these people had come to London with high expectations, thinking...
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How are shattered illusions presented in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners? What points could I make in an essay?
This is a wonderful topic for an essay about this particular novel: The Lonely Londoners. There are many shattered illusions in this book, which focuses on the loneliness felt by the immigrants...
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In "Lonely Londoners", why are the characters called Londoners and why are they lonely? Also comment on the use of...
The title "Lonely Londoners" is directly related to the novel's main theme. The main character, Moses Aloetta, is an emigrant from his native Trinidad to England, and specifically London, in the...
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How can I justify why this work is titled The Lonely Londoners?
The Lonely Londoners examines the detached, rootless existence of Caribbean émigrés in England in the period after World War II. While the immigrants like to imagine themselves at the center of the...
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Apart from Moses, which character do you think most fully illustrates the plight described by Selvon's title?...
Henry Oliver—Galahad—is the character who best represents loneliness in The Lonely Londoners. His experiences create more isolation with every unmet expectation and the resulting loneliness is...
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Sevlon's Londoners inhabit a comic universe that hovers on the edge of tragedy in The Lonely Londoners. How far can...
I would argue that it's debatable that there's much comedy in this story. While some of the descriptions and characters contain elements of humor, the undercurrent of the book is the plight of...
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What is the role of captain in the book, or analyse his role to me his role
Cap serves in many ways to act as a foil or at least an example of the opposite way of looking at and acting within the world to most of the West Indian population that fills the pages of the...
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How are blacks identified in The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon?
Blacks are identified as "outsiders" because of their accents and because of the color of their skin. This group of "outsiders" forms a group... "congregation by segregation." By coming together in...