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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses magic realism and racial intolerance with regard to Carpentier's book. No additional sources cited.
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such otherwise devastating situations might establish. Ti-Noel, slave narrator in Carpentiers The Kingdom of This World, initially classifies the many harmful occurrences as an affront against his people rather
than a racial swipe, not knowing the two elements have nothing whatsoever to do with each other; it is only as the narrative takes shape the understanding is realized and
sets out to chronicle the intolerable reality by way of his narrative account. "Ti-Noel, in a kind of mental counterpoint, silently hummed a chanty that was very popular among
the harbor coopers, heaping ignominy on the King of England...he had little esteem for the King of England, or the King of France, or of Spain, who ruled the other
half of the island..." (Carpentier, 1989, p. 6). Carpentier (1989) clearly has a lot to say about what he sees as being
wrong and right in the world, and he certainly does not want his readers to remain neutral about his arguments. The manner by which he achieves this objective, yet
also maintains reader respect and loyalty, is by speaking the truth in such a way that both intrigues and educates. Provocation toward anger and frustration do not exist with
regard to Carpentiers (1989) narrative treatment, inasmuch as the reader is more readily inclined to side with the authors defiance rather than oppose it.
Indeed, Carpentiers story paints a vivid picture of the black communitys self-destructive nature and the impact it ultimately had upon the French takeover. The Kingdom of This World
is a troubling account of the narrators travels through human ignorance, as well as how racial intolerance has been a regular way of life as long as man has been
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