A Distance Shore
A Distance Shore by Carly Phyllip’s which is the major focus of this research study depicts the lives of Solomon and Dorothy. In all her entire life, Dorothy has lived in England where she was not born, but recently, she moved to her birth place town where she works as a pensioned-off music teacher. At the start of the novel, it is clear that Dorothy leads a extremely lonely life and almost immediately, it becomes clear how her lonely life came about. Other than being obliged to have an early retirement due to an intimacy that she had with her colleague at work that is married and whom she find it difficult to leave after a one night incident of sleeping with him, Dorothy has been abandoned by her husband for a much younger woman than her …show more content…
Some experts and authors have pointed out that most of the novels written by Carl are set in the former world but their plays as well as scripts actually portrays what it means to be a black person in Britain today. However, if compared to the other prior novels by Carl Phyllis, A Distance Shore is sort of an integration of the settings of the prior his prior novels despite some similarities that keeps recurring particularly on certain topics from the other previous novels. For instance, Dorothy and Solomon characteristically share quite a number of similarities with the other protagonists in the prior novels of Carl as well as various themes such as alienation, discrimination, and displacement are common in most of Carl’s novels. The major objective of this study is primarily to reflect on the activities in the novel, A Distance Shore to various happenings in Britain as well as a nation in general, in order to meet this goal, it is important that the characters in the novel to be described and analyzed distinctively in all aspects including their roles in the
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