grab the Africans‘ land. Implicitly, the emergence of the Western countries in the Africa continent
produces the repentance to the Africans‘ next generation. Willie prefers to choose to be born when Africa liberates from the Western countries.
Apparently, Willie does not understand or does not remember that although he was born when Africa free from the Western countries domination, he is still
suppressed by the Western people. The colonizers have applied the master plan to constitute the histories, cultures and identities of their colonies over the world and
replace those sacred things with the Western histories, cultures and identities. Thus, the readers can see that
Willie‘s position in London is a stranger. Inevitably, Willie‘s perspective on the idea of home cannot be separated from his
observation on the social circumstances in London. Willie will not feel at home if the setting do not give him security, happiness and all things that he wants. Willie
cannot feel at home in London is because he feels as a stranger. Thus, happiness and security are not enough for Willie to feel in London.
b. Willie’s Perspectives on Multicultural Society
In the novel, Willie also describes the multicultural society in London. Willie witnesses many people from India, Pakistan and Japan enjoy their life in
London. He thinks that the world has been united. There is great difference when Willie lived in London thirty years ago. It can be seen from following quotation:
The streets of the centre were very crowded, so crowded that sometimes it was not easy to walk. There were black people everywhere, and
Japanese, and people who looked like Arabs. He thought, ‗There has
been a great churning in the world. This is not the London I lived in thirty years ago Naipaul, 2004: 188.
London becomes multicultural state where people from various countries live together there. The people from various countries are easily found in the roads in
London. The roads are very crowded. Implicitly, Willie describes that London populations increase significantly.
Then, Willie really understands that the great transformations are supported by huge power that he does not understand. However, huge alterations
eliminate the stories of poverty and injustice in Willie‘s mind. In the following quotation is a
nother proof about Willie‘s outlook to multicultural society in London:
Increasingly on the winding main road there were Indians; and Pakistanis; and Bangladeshis dressed as they might have been at home,
the men with layers of gowns or shirts and with the white cap of submission to the Arab faith, their low statured women even more
bundled up and covered and with fearful black masks. Willie knew about the great immigration from the subcontinent, but since ideas often exist
in compartments
he hadn‘t imagined that London still in his mind something from central casting could have been so repeopled in thirty
years Naipaul, 2004: 213-214.
The emergence of the people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in London makes Willie curious. He makes detail observation on those people. Most of the
people from various continents use their traditional clothes. Seemingly, they enjoy live in London. Willie still does not understand how Indians, Pakistanis, and
Bangladeshis feel at home in London. Arabs are free to express their faith even they use cover and fearful masks. Willie says that he only knows the great
immigration from subcontinent but he does not really understand about what exactly happened behind the great immigration in London.
Willie sees that those people are the same with him. He describes that the man from West Indies are happy in London that has cosmopolitan company. On
the other hand, the Malaysian man does not want to talk to anyone in training center. In addition, Pakistan man focuses on his faith. Willie thinks that Pakistan
man want to spread his religion in the training center. In other words, the people from various countries in the world just concern about themselves. They do not
care anyone around them. It can be seen from the following quotation: He was thinking of people like himself, as it seemed to him: the big black
or mixed man from the West Indies, who had worked his way up and was immensely pleased to be in this cosmopolitan company; the very neat
Malaysian Chinese, clearly a man of business, in a fawn-coloured suit, and white shirt and tie, who sat in the lounge with his delicate legs
elegantly crossed and seemed self contained, ready to go through the whole course without talking to anyone; the man from the Indian
subcontinent in his absurd white shoes, who turned out to be from Pakistan and a religious fanatic, ready to spread the Arab faith in this
training centre devoted to anot
her kind of learning and glory…Naipaul, 2004: 221.
However, multicultural society in the United Kingdom reveals the domination of the imperial cultures. The people from various countries over the
world come to the ―center‖ because they believe that they can find the freedom
there. The Western countries always claim that freedom is only found in the West. Here, we can s
ee that people from entire the world come to the ―mother country‖ act as justification of the Western dominion cultures. The African, Indian, Asian
and American are as ―margin‖ and the United Kingdom is as a ―center‖.
