In The Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, the reader discovers the story of one of the main characters, Mustafa Sa'eed. In Stuart Halls' book, Cultural Identity and Diaspora, we gain insight into what forms an identity and what shapes it into what it is. Throughout the Season of Northern Migration, the narrator attempts to discover Sa'eed's true identity, but also finds himself. Cultural differences help shape a person's identity in who they are, rather than who they become. Halls' article on cultural identity can be correlated with the narrator's experience in order to learn more about the mysterious Mustafa Sa'eed. Stuart Hall's article explains how a person's voice when representing themselves says a lot about them. He goes on to wonder, “Where is he talking about?” Practices of representation always involve the positions from which we speak or write – the positions of enunciation” (Hall 222). The way we speak can reveal almost anything, from perhaps guessing their country of origin, to their level of education, and can even go so far as to be a clear indicator of social class. This is why the beginning of the novel is introduced with an anonymous character who returns to his small and simple hometown of Wad Hamid, after studying for seven years in Europe. The unnamed character (who will be referred to as "the narrator" for the purposes of establishing the character's identity) is fascinated by the cool and mysterious vibe he gets from Sa'eed. The narrator is embarrassed by the questions those around him ask about his long adventure in Europe. The narrator believes that due to disadvantages in terms of economic progress and educational development which are not available in the middle of the document...... "one people" with colonization efforts, changes to the end of the novel. By the end, he understands how he is metaphorically “stuck in a river” from which he has no hope of getting out. The effects of colonization have harmful consequences on one’s “being”. Through the "diaspora experience" that Mustafa Sa'eed and the narrator end up having, the audience sees how, although very similar, their cultural identities were anything but the same. In the narrator's efforts to uncover the misfortunes of what Sa'eed was going through and why he chose the life he led, we see the narrator "becoming." Unlike Sa'eed, he is not frozen, and although at first he is a little worried about letting himself die drowned in the river, the audience understands the difference between the two characters when the narrator chooses to save his life for lack of life. smoke a cigarette.