Letter

Dear Alejo Carpentier,
    I have just completed reading your book, "The Kingdom of the World", and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was wondering if you could take some time out of your day to possibly answer a question or two. Ti Noel plays a major role in this book, and I was wondering if he could possibly even represent being the main character at fault for the cyclical oppression. In the last pages of the book it states that "try as he would, Ti noel could think of no way to help his subjects bowed once again beneath the whiplash. The old man began to lose heart at this endless return of chains, this rebirth of shackles..." I view Ti Noel as a paternal figure, especially in this moment. When you where writing this book, did you make Ti Noel the metaphorical father of his subjects, and therefore the father of oppression? If so, is he the root for the continuous problems of his people? Thank you for taking time out of your day to read this.

Best regards,
Charlotte Gwynn