Everything you need to understand or teach Leaving This Island Place by Austin C. Clarke.
Austin C. Clarke's short story "Leaving This Island Place" has been published in the short story collection From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories, collected by Michael Ondaatje, in 1990.
"Leaving This Island Place" is told from the perspective of a first-person narrator, the protagonist of the story, who is not named. The narrator is a young man preparing to leave his native Barbados ("this island place") in order to attend college in Canada. As the...