Poverty

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in life, leaving no time for progress or betterment. In A Hot Country, Naipaul chooses a story of a struggling salesman to prove this point. Aubrey St.-Pierre, is dedicated to "the betterment of society" through the educational books that he sells at the Aurora, his bookstore. He claims to
only sell works which "provoke thought and kindness", but in reality there is no one to buy his books. No one has time for betterment. Dina, Aubrey's assistant, the first to understand this:
There were long periods when she did not have to deal with
the rare browsers, nor drunks, nor beggars...when all she
did was sit on her stool and stare at the posters and traffic.
(Naipaul, Hot,36) Similarly, Naipaul depicts a comparable situation in North of South, only under different conditions. A German tourist notes the impossibility of change for the impoverished Africans:
They have so much to learn. Such a long way to go. Not
even a hundred years might be enough for them. They need
lots ...

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