Pages 16-38
· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Selvon, Samuel. The Lonely Londoners. Penguin Books, 2006. OceanofPDF.com PDF.
· On pages 16-38 on a foggy, cold winter evening, Moses Aloetta goes to Waterloo Station to meet a friend of a friend who is arriving from Trinidad.
· Although Moses has never met the man, Henry Oliver, he frequently meets strangers at the train station and helps them get settled in London and find work and housing.
· At the station, Moses feels a bit of homesickness that he has not usually felt in the nine or ten years he has been in England.
· Waterloo Station is a place where people come and go, and it makes him feel “sort of lonely and miserable” (19).
· He sees a friend named Tolroy who is at the station waiting for his mother to arrive from Trinidad.
· Tolroy has...
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