S Character Analysis

Another one of Fanon’s patients in Algeria during the Algerian War of Independence. S is a 37-year-old man from an outlying village. He had nothing to do with the war until the French ambushed his village and shot 29 men at point-blank range. S sustained two gunshot wounds, and after his injury when he was recovering in the hospital, he suffered a psychotic break. He was sent to the psychiatric hospital for treatment, and he is discharged after one month. S also represents the psychological effects of violence on the colonized individual.