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Hej, jeg ville være glad hvis der var nogen der ville give et råd til om der mangler noget eller om der er nogle skrive mæssige fejl/mangler (jeg tænker ikke så meget på stave/gramma fejl) som ville gøre mit essay bedre

ville være glad for lidt hjælp da jeg ikke er alt for skarp i denne diciplin :P



Immigrants from Africa sometimes think of the west as a paradise, but when they get there, they see that it is not always the case. In The River Underground, published in 2002 and written by Richard Tromans. We meet Husman who experiences that on his own body.

The main character Husman is in London to earn money so he can build his own compound back in Gambia. He has a hard time understanding the westerners and their way of life. He find it odd but he just mind his own business and that is getting some money and going home. He is living in a world of his own with no or minimal contact with the “real life” in London. However when he meets Helen, all that changes. He is getting involved in something that he cannot take back to Gambia, and that was not a part of his plan. Moreover, when Graham comes back everything falls down around him. He find the job very hard, I think because he is associating the job with working under white peoples premises where he before only thought of it as good for himself.
He sees this time of his life as a time he just need to get through and then head back to Gambia. But the relationship with Helen changes that. He want to stay with her but he have a hard time understanding the western way of “using” other people to get comfort.

Husman goes from being kind of naïve or perhaps just being an ignorant, that just do his work without putting to many thoughts in it. To a man, who hates the western lifestyle and hates his job.
An example is when he in the beginning says to a woman who drops a tissue: “It’s no problem. If you didn’t drop things I’d have nothing to pick up.” And then after he split up with Helen he feels every piece of litter dropped is an insult to him.

I think he is becoming a part of the world he did not want to be a part of originally, and now sees that. He has felt the power of love that had put him in a situation he could not had predicted. And the he felt his heart tore apart. In a way he never thought was possible, at least not in Gambia. He finds out that he cannot live in that world; he has to go back, in order to maintain his well-being as a person.
He goes from being ignorant, to well informed, and learned it on the hard way. And he learn that a life where the only objective is to get status and money is not a life that he ever wants.