Exploring Falesa Realism in The Beach of Falesa

Exploring Falesa Realism in The Beach of Falesa

“The Beach of Falesa
The first realistic work

      Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish writer who used to write about the adventure romance, he shifted his literary career when he immigrated to Samoa in the South Pacific. However, Stevenson experienced the pacific life what made him depicts the realistic life in the island in his work “The Beach of Falesa”, saying to his friend in a letter “It’s the first realistic South Sea story: I mean with real South Sea character and detail of life.” (Towheed, 2012)He has a collection of stories “South Sea tales” which he reflects his experience of living abroad in the South Seas. One of these south sea tales is The…