At his arrival in England, Solomon is astonished by the numerous differences between his culture and the British’s culture. He is irritated and offended when he first meets Demise especially on how she dresses and how she question him as if they are in the same age group, “She is asking him questions that do not concern her, and it troubles him that she cannot see that he is a grown man and she is merely a child” (Phillips, A Distance Shore 165). Among the many reasons why Solomon likes Dorothy very much is because of this one, she is one person that Solomon finds respectable in her own surroundings since she recognizes that Solomon is an adult, a grown man who deserves to be respected, and for that among other reasons, Solomon likes her very much. However, in another passage, Solomon is shown to be agitated by the reality that the British people seems decided to make no contact with the people they do not know, they tend …show more content…
My language was drying up in my mouth, and sometimes, when nobody was around, I would place my language on my tongue and speak some words so that I could be sure that I was still in possession of it” (Phillips, A Distance Shore 253). This demonstrated that Solomon was losing his identity as being in England is changing him into someone else different from the real him before he got to England, and therefore he will find it difficult to fit into the society if he goes back to his country. Nonetheless, on the other hand, he also finds it difficult to fit in completely into the Britain’s society. “Britain is sought of defined as a nation by identification of those who don’t belong to its society” (Phillips, A Distance Shore