with peasants‘ mission. This mission makes Willie at home in India. The condition totally changed when he meets Kandapalli‘s enemies. The implication is
he wants to leave training camp. In fact, Willie cannot escape from the training camp. Willie is really desperate to face this situation. Actually, there is resistance
of Willie. It is not significantly showed in the novel . It can be seen from Willie‘s
statement ―I don‘t like these faces‖. Willie wants to reveal that as a soldier he has to survive in the emergency situation and to think the next step to get out of the
training camp. Then, Willie decides to tell the mistakes to his sister. He writes a letter to Sarojini.
―Dear Sarojini, I think something terrible has happened. I am not with the people w
e talked about. I don’t know how it’s happened, but I believe I am with Kandapalli’s enemies” Naipaul, 2004: 52. Willie believes that he has
joined Kandapalli‘s enemies. Willie writes Kandapalli‘s name in his letter. It is
dangerous for Willie. Later, Willie rethinks that he has to omit Kandapalli‘s name
in his letter. ―He thought that was too open. He crossed out Kandapalli‘s name, and then decided that it was too dangerous for him to write to Sarojini
‖ Naipaul, 2004: 53. In order to avoid another problem, Willie decides to cancel his letter to
Sarojini. He has to accept the terrible condition in training camp. Willie observes
all the sentries. He detects that most of the people who enlist themselves to the revolution group are in Willie‘s age. ―They were all people in their late thirties or
early forties, Willie‘s age, and he wondered what weakness or failure had caused them in mid-life to leave the outer world and to enter this strange chamber
‖ Naipaul, 2004: 53. There are many Indians who become l
andowner‘s soldier to
take the peasant‘s land. Those soldiers are loyal to their powerful master. Their tasks are to collect the taxes from the peasants and if the peasants do not pay the
taxes; the soldiers will take the peasants goods including the land. This condition makes Willie‘s life getting worst. Social circumstances in his ancestor‘s land do
not give him happiness, brotherhood and love. Willie cannot capture the idea of home in his ancestor‘s land.
c. Willie’s Perspectives on Globalization
Indian people begin to develop their country. They make significant transformations in all sectors. They start to modernize the technology, education
system, government structure, social system and culture. The transformation in India cannot be separated from the emergence of British people. British has
important role in developing the technology in India. Besides, British people also spread their cultures, way of life and way of thinking. Gradually, Indian people
follow British‘s ways of live, ways of thinking and cultures and they forget their original cultures.
However, British‘s cultures, ways of life and ways of thinking bring positive and negative impacts to the Indian people. The positive impacts to the
Indian are on the technology and education sectors. India can adopt the technology from England in actualizing prosperous society. On the other hand,
some of British‘s cultures also bring negative impact. For instance is ways of life.
It is the most vivid example of the British‘s influence to the Indian people.
In the story, Willie criticizes the Indian ways of life. He is really confused when he observes the Indian habits. He believes that Indian people adopt
foreign cultures. Because many Indians adopt foreign styles, Willie looks them different from himself. Willie thinks that there is huge gap between himself and
Indian people. It can be seen from Willie‘s observation toward Indian people in
the airport: He saw India in everything they wore and did. He was full of his mission,
full of the revolution in his soul, and he felt a great distance from them. But detail by detail the India he was observing, in the airport pen, and
then in the aircraft, the terrible India of Indian family life —the soft
physiques, the way of eating, the ways of speech, the idea of the father, the idea of the mother, the crinkled, much used plastic shop bags
sometimes with a long irrelevant printed name —this India began to
assault him, began to remind him of things he thought he had forgotten and put aside, things which his idea of his mission had obliterated; and
the distance he felt from his fellow passengers diminished Naipaul, 2004: 28-29.
The globalization has shocked the social life and social system. The history of globalization is related to the story of colonialism. Since colonialism cannot
survive in the constellation humans‘ civilization, the Western countries create new type of colonialism that can be accepted in all over the world. Globalization
emphasizes the idea of mass consumption and mass production. In addition, the Western countries try to formulate the global culture which it glorifies the
dominant culture. India has experienced the strong impact of the globalization which the Indians have different perspective to themselves, way of life and way of
thinking. Implicitly, globalization has constituted the social group in the social life.
However, those transformations still haunt Willie‘s mind. Willie
understands that he sees India from someone else‘s perspectives, but he does not want it to dominate his life. Long time ago, Willie has been to India. He describes
that India is a simple world where everything has been constituted. It can be seen from following quotation:
Willie thought, ‗Twenty years ago I wouldn‘t have seen what I am seeing now…I have come from a world of waste and appearances. I saw quite
clearly some time ago that it was a simple world, where people had been simplified. I must not go back on that vision. I must understand that now
I am among people of more complicated beliefs and social ideas, and at the same time in a world stripped of all style and artifice Naipaul, 2004:
30.
Willie sees that Indian people are from various backgrounds. He has to adapt with those people who come from multiple backgrounds. The globalization has
developed rapidly in India. Although most people continue to live as citizens of a single nation, they are culturally, materially, and psychologically engaged with
the lives of people in other countries as never before. The new definitions of the transportation, building and all the rules are the product of globalization. Those
transformations must be adjusted in order to avoid negativ e impact to one‘s life:
And soon India, with all its new definitions of things taxi, hotel, railway station, waiting room, lavatory, restaurant, and all its new disciplines
squatting in the lavatory, eating only cooked food, avoiding water and soft fruit, engulfed him Naipaul, 2004: 31.
Moreover, Willie also describes how the road in India is very crowded. The scooters and taxis struggle to get a space with horsedrawn. This is the most vivid
example of the negative effect of the globalization. There are many cars that make the road crowded. In addition, the taxis and scooter will produce the air pollution
and global warming. On the other hand, the large number of taxis and scooter as product of globalization will replace the traditional transportation. Implicitly, the
globalization enlarges the inequalities in the social life which it impacts on the poverty rate in the developing countries. The poor will become poorer and the rich
