Mr. Know All is also a story of such experience which revolves around a person named Mr. Kelda whom he meets during his travel to “Yakohama” by ship. In the story the author dislikes Mr. Kelda because he is Black and the most disturbing and interfering element on board. Mr. Kelda is given the title Mr. Know All because of his talkative nature. The narrator does not like Mr. Kelda but in the end he comes to know the reality and is impressed by his decency and changes his views about Blacks, in generalThe story teller shows how we often tend to be judgmental towards others yet later when we take a closer look, we may find that they are truly greater in character than we are. In the first half of the story the narrator’s racist views are manifested in his dislike for Mr. Kelda and his search for a name with Smith or Brown as his fellow passenger as he scans the passenger list – an unabashed show of British superiority, their trade mark suspicion towards people of foreign origin, their condemnation of Blacks as savage, uncivilized, uncouth and their colonial mindset. Likewise Mr. Kelda is treated as a social outcast on board. The writer epitomizes the “White” mindset, as he is predisposed to dislike Mr. Kelda without knowing him well. This story also deals with prejudice and hasty judgment. However, the progress of the story sees a transformation in the narrator when he criticizes racial prejudices and snobbish attitude of the British as his own perception changes with the turn of events. The ship here, where the narrator meets Mr. Kelda, symbolizes a slice of society where different types of people live for an extended period of time and get a chance to come close to each other, which compels the writer to change his opinion in the long run, about Mr. Kelda and acknowledge the virtuosity of a Black man.