Season

In Season of Migration to the North, we have an unknown narrator, who, as Professor Mufti said, has a very strong connection to his motherland. He went away to Europe to study for seven years and longed to come back to his home. He feels in tune with the people of his town, the land and the rivers but he is immediately puzzled and uncomfortable with the pressence of this new stranger to his homeland. This stranger is Mustafa, a man whom nobody in the village really knows much about, and seems to be functioning quite normally in this land. The narrator seems to sense that he doesn't belong and eventually confronts Mustafa about it and learns that Mustafa previously spent his time "colonizing" or seducing women into sleeping with him. He possessed so much power, charm, and mystery to them that they would eventually kill themselves, or he would kill them. He did this as a way to get back at Europe for colonizing his people. The irony here was that he was using everything that the Europeans taught him to destroy and seduce these women; the mystery of his home in the East, the womens' lack of knowledge tof his past, and the wonderful mastery of the English language allowed him to become this monster.