Reading John Lara's The Samaritan: Plot Analysis and Characters - A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #1

John Lara's The Samaritan is an interesting play about modern politics in the caribbean and the so called third world. It adds a voice to the general criticism of corrupption and maladministration in these areas. This book aims at helping the reader understand the crafting of this play in terms of conflict and sub-conflicts and how they build the plot as well as the logic behind the characters, whow and what they are, and the role they play. This book introduces new ideas about dealing with the plot of a play. Many critics have simply examined what the authors intend. This book helps the reader do so him/herself by introducing a set of questions which make the ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE apparent to the reader without much struggle. The discussion of these issues which follows later now becomes an engagement between the critic and the reader in a way that the reader may agree or disagree, having discovered these issues himself/herself. This makes the criticism of John Lara's The Samaritan a more engaging experience.