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    A Study Guide for Austin C. Clarke's "Leaving This Island Place"
    A Study Guide for Austin C. Clarke's "Leaving This Island Place"
    A Study Guide for Austin C. Clarke's "Leaving This Island Place"
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    A Study Guide for Austin C. Clarke's "Leaving This Island Place"

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    A Study Guide for Austin C. Clarke's "Leaving This Island Place," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literature of Developing Nations For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateNov 3, 2016
    ISBN9781535827218
    A Study Guide for Austin C. Clarke's "Leaving This Island Place"

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      A Study Guide for Austin C. Clarke's "Leaving This Island Place" - Gale

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      Leaving This Island Place

      Austin C. Clarke

      1990

      Introduction

      Austin C. Clarke’s short story Leaving This Island Place has been published in the short story collection From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories, collected by Michael Ondaatje, in 1990.

      Leaving This Island Place is told from the perspective of a first-person narrator, the protagonist of the story, who is not named. The narrator is a young man preparing to leave his native Barbados (this island place) in order to attend college in Canada. As the story opens, he is going to visit his father, who is dying in an almshouse. The narrator’s mother and father were never married, and so he grew up in a home with his mother and stepfather and was not given his father’s surname, making him a bastard child. Although his mother forbade the mention of his father’s name throughout his childhood, the narrator occasionally sneaked off to visit his father. However, during the present time of the story, the narrator, who has made his way into the realm of the privileged social classes through his education, has become completely alienated from his father. His girlfriend, Cynthia, who is from a wealthy family, as symbolized by the Jaguar sports car her father has given her, does not even know he had a father. And, although she promises to see the narrator off at the airport, she does not show up. Throughout the story, the narrator repeats to himself the statement that he is leaving this island, a step away from his family, friends, and native home about which he feels a mixture of guilt, anxiety, fear, and

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