... clip into the dust not aiming toward any target? Perhaps it was seeing and hearing the disrespect his own father, (or most of the town for that matter), had towards Native Americans. Even Daisy, a woman he loved and thought of as his grandmother, was indifferent to Frank's lewd actions as long as they only involved "Squaws". But his disappointment was not ... share would not have lead to Davy's actions that afternoon. Davy felt uncomfortable in social situations. He didn't know how to behave with the strictures of town. Besides, being the son of the sheriff and grandson of the ex-sherif...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sam Selvon- The Lonely Londoners Born in South Trinidad on 20 May 1923, Samuel Dickson Selvon, the son of an Indian father and a half-Indian, half-Scottish mother, graduated from San Fernando's Naparima College in 1938. Selvon grew up in Trinidad's multiracial society and regards himself as a creolized ... West Indian, as he has suggested in more than one interview. But he has a strong sense of displacement, and this feeling sometimes emerges as a subtle theme in his fiction. He began to write fiction and poetry while he worked as a wireless operator for the Royal Navy Reserve during World Wa...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate