Second, he situates himself in the free position because he does not absolutely oppose the colonizer or to join the Africans.
Here, Willie‘s constellation in the guerilla war in Africa does not show his resistance to the colonizers. Willie‘s passivity in the guerilla war implicitly
reveals the important point that whoever does not get involved in the fight against the crime means he defends the crime. The writer observes that Naipaul‘s major
character, Willie, hides behind his ambiguous statement: ―In my heart of hearts I was always on the Africans‘ side, but I didn‘t have a war to go to‖. He states that
he does not have a war to go to because he does not have primordial relation between him and Africans. In this point, Willie shows his trickiness to defend
himself from the accusation that he is on colonizers‘ side.
2. Willie’s Perspective in India
Willie‘s struggle to interrogate his originality continues in his ancestors land, India. It seems that Willie has primordial relation with India. In fact, Willie
cannot capture the intimate relation between Willie and his ancestors‘ land. He sees himself as a stranger in India. He is separated, thrown and alienated from his
ancestors land. This condition can be analogized with vagrants‘ condition. They are homeless and lost of the boundaries as a human being. In this context, the
vagrants do not have a place to identify their identity and to give them security. The logical implication is Willie keep interrogates his true home, true self and true
identity.
a. Willie’s Perspective on the Idea of Home
The endeavor of Willie in searching his true home, true self and true identity can be seen from his perspectives toward hotel, training camp and
peasant‘s hut in his ancestor‘s land. For Willie, hotel is not his true home, true identity because the architectures of the hotels in India are borrowed from the
foreign countries especially England. ―Willie knew that it had no meaning, that it
had all been copied from some foreign hotel, and was to be taken only as a gesture of goodwill, a wish to please, an aspect
of being modern‖Naipaul, 2004: 34. The consequence is he cannot see the authenticity the history of India anymore.
Naipaul‘s major character can capture the meaning of home in hotel if it gives him knowledge about who he is. Thus, although the Riviera hotel has provided the
luxurious accommodations and security for Willie, he still cannot know his originality, his true identity.
The struggle of Naipaul‘s major character, Willie, to search his true home, his true self occurs in training camp. Actually the emergence of Willie in
the training camp is to join the revolution group that he has expected before. He wants to help the peasants because he can see his true self in the images of the
peasants. Willie expects that he can find the warmth, happiness, brotherhood and the simplicity of the peasants in the training camp. In fact, he absolutely never
find what he has imagined. Willie feels different from the leader of the training camp because the leader‘s appearances like a businessman or civil servant. ―The
rule in the camp, enunciated by the leader —a man of about forty, who looked like
a businessman or civil servant…‖ Naipaul, 2004: 53. Willie also acknowledges
that he had been away from India too long. He couldn‘t assess the backgrounds of
the people around him Naipaul, 2004: 53. The spirit of the people in the training camp does not correspond with Willie‘s spirit which he wants to fight together
with the peasants to resist the landowner. Willie is not able to find his true home, true identity in the training camp.
Actually, Willie finds his true identity when he shelters in the peasant‘s
hut which he can capture the simplicity, brotherhood, happiness and warmth through the images of the peasants‘ in the urban village. On the other hand, Willie
indirectly mocks the master of the hut by calling him as ―outcast‖ and ―dark‖. The writer sees that Willie
‘s perspective to the hut master shows his ambiguous position by which he half accepts his identity.
b. Willie’s Perspective on Domestic Conflict in the Aftermath of the India
