Language And Environment In Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

ABSTRACT This long essayproposes an analytic and a cross-analytic review of the language choice ofenvironment in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. The novel tellsthe story of a character, simply called “the Man” who is surrounded bycorruption in a corrupt West African state, and how he (the Man) struggles tokeep out of the overpowering mess. It also presents the story of a man’sloneliness and anguish at the physical and social filth around him, and aboutwhich he could do little or nothing. He does not only encounter the craze forcorruption in the bus, the office, among f…