Observation

This question requires the candidates to describe how Mr Noble is presented in the novel as a second class citizen.

Candidates were expected to discuss the following:

• Statement of the theme of migration.
• Character identification: Mr. Noble is the only son of his father, a certain Benin chief who has six wives and about twenty-eight children, he ‘came to England to read law’ but ‘failed to make it’; ends up as a liftman who gets injured at work and is paid ‘a lump sum compensation for his injury’. He is given the name, Mr. Noble after he strips himself naked for a pint of beer.
• Context of second class citizen in the novel: it is used to describe immigrants from Africa and Asia to Europe.
• Mr. Noble as second class citizen: his efforts to become a lawyer in England are frustrated by the racial environment, he is also unable to get a mortgage which is available for only the whites.
• The phenomenon of second class citizen is addressed at two levels: women as second class citizens in England and non-UK citizens as second class citizens.

Candidates’ performance in this question was average.