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(1)
Nii Kpakpo and Maa Tsuru are lovers in the novel (Faceless). Maa Tsuru is the mother of Fofo, Baby T and some other children.
She does not gave a stable relationship as she comes across men who impregnates her and dumps her afterwards.
Being a gullible woman, Maa Tsuru believes Nii Kwakpo without questioning.
She however regrets her relationship with the man later in the novelbas she realises her mistakes and gullibility.
Maa Tsuru began to feel for the pinch. She dropped a hint to kpakpo but either he did not get it or refused to get it.
Kwakpo succeeds in deceiving Maa Tsuru to part with her daughter, Baby T, only for Maa Tsuru to regret it later when Baby T is being gruesomely murdered.
(4)
The novel Lonely Days has its backdrop in pastoral setting.
It reflects the predicament of widows in African society (Nigeria to be specific).
The novel is a mirror of the quandary/dilemma of a Nigeria widow battling with either to uphold the status quo of levirate (a system of remarrying within family, or the practice by which a man may be required to marry his brother's widow).
In Nigeria's rustic society, even to some upholders of this tradition of levirate in urban society in Yorubaland, it is culturally acceptable for a widow after sometimes of mourning her deceased husband to 'pick a cap' ( remarrying to anew man) in the community.
The story is narrated through the plight of the protagonist, Yaremi, along with other characters who develop the plot structure of the novel.
Lonely Days is a novel used by Bayo Adebowale to question the notion of cultural imposition of levirate. The denial of the protagonist, Yaremi to pick a cap, by invariably living a solitary life adds credence to this cultural practice (levirate) as obsolete (old fashioned).
(6)
Max Boris: Max Boris is an idealistic lawyer with communist sympathies who
defends the protagonist Bigger Thomas but comes under attack himself because he is a communist and a Jew. More than any other character, he understands Bigger and forms a close relationship
with him.
(5)
Bigger Thomas as America’s Native Son In the novel the Native Son, the author Richard Wright explores racism and oppression in
American society. Wright skillfully merges his
narrative voice into Bigger Thomas so that the
reader can also feel how the pressure and racism affects the feelings, thoughts, self-image, and life of a Negro person.
Bigger is a tragic
product of American imperialism and exploitation
in a modern world.
Bigger embodies one of humankind’s greatest tragedies of how mass
oppression permeates all aspects of the lives of the oppressed and the oppressor, creating a
world of misunderstanding, ignorance, and suffering.
The novel is loaded with a plethora of imageries
of a hostile white world.
Wright shows how white
racism affects the behavior, feelings, and thoughts of Bigger.
“Everytime I think about it I feel like somebody’s poking a red-hot iron down my throat…We live here and they live there.
We black and they white.
They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t…I feel like I’m on the outside the world peeping in through a knot-hole in the fence…” (20).
Bigger’s sense of constriction and of
confinement is very palpable to the reader.
Wright also uses a more articulate voice to accurately describe the oppressive conditions of a Negro person. An anonymous black cellmate, a university student cries out, ”You make us live in such crowded conditions… that one out of every ten of us is insane…you dump all stale foods into the Black Belt and sell
them for more than you can get anywhere else…
You tax us, but you wont build hospitals…the
schools are so crowded that they breed perverts…you hire us last and fire us
first…” (318)
Bigger’s sense of constriction by the white world is so strong that he has no doubt that “something awful’s going to happen to me…” (21).
Nowhere in this novel can the reader see a greater example of Bigger’s fear and sense of constriction than in the accidental death of Mary
Dalton.
The allen-compassing fear that the white world has bred in Bigger takes over when he is in Mary’s room and in danger of being discovered
by Mrs. Dalton.
This internalized social
oppression literally forces his hands to hold the pillow over Mary’s face, suffocating her.
Bigger believes that a white person would assume that he was in the room to rape the white girl.
Bigger’s violent reaction to fear is inevitable.
When a person finds all outlets of expression and
development either closed or severely constrained, like Bigger’s, violence is often the instinctive reaction to oppression.
1-10 CDCBDBDCAC
11-20 CDBCBBDBCC
21-30 AABBDDACDB
31-40.AABCDCCDAD
41-50 BBAACBBBCD
(1)
Nii Kpakpo and Maa Tsuru are lovers in the novel (Faceless). Maa Tsuru is the mother of Fofo, Baby T and some other children.
She does not gave a stable relationship as she comes across men who impregnates her and dumps her afterwards.
Being a gullible woman, Maa Tsuru believes Nii Kwakpo without questioning.
She however regrets her relationship with the man later in the novelbas she realises her mistakes and gullibility.
Maa Tsuru began to feel for the pinch. She dropped a hint to kpakpo but either he did not get it or refused to get it.
Kwakpo succeeds in deceiving Maa Tsuru to part with her daughter, Baby T, only for Maa Tsuru to regret it later when Baby T is being gruesomely murdered.
(4)
The novel Lonely Days has its backdrop in pastoral setting.
It reflects the predicament of widows in African society (Nigeria to be specific).
The novel is a mirror of the quandary/dilemma of a Nigeria widow battling with either to uphold the status quo of levirate (a system of remarrying within family, or the practice by which a man may be required to marry his brother's widow).
In Nigeria's rustic society, even to some upholders of this tradition of levirate in urban society in Yorubaland, it is culturally acceptable for a widow after sometimes of mourning her deceased husband to 'pick a cap' ( remarrying to anew man) in the community.
The story is narrated through the plight of the protagonist, Yaremi, along with other characters who develop the plot structure of the novel.
Lonely Days is a novel used by Bayo Adebowale to question the notion of cultural imposition of levirate. The denial of the protagonist, Yaremi to pick a cap, by invariably living a solitary life adds credence to this cultural practice (levirate) as obsolete (old fashioned).
(6)
Max Boris: Max Boris is an idealistic lawyer with communist sympathies who
defends the protagonist Bigger Thomas but comes under attack himself because he is a communist and a Jew. More than any other character, he understands Bigger and forms a close relationship
with him.
(5)
Bigger Thomas as America’s Native Son In the novel the Native Son, the author Richard Wright explores racism and oppression in
American society. Wright skillfully merges his
narrative voice into Bigger Thomas so that the
reader can also feel how the pressure and racism affects the feelings, thoughts, self-image, and life of a Negro person.
Bigger is a tragic
product of American imperialism and exploitation
in a modern world.
Bigger embodies one of humankind’s greatest tragedies of how mass
oppression permeates all aspects of the lives of the oppressed and the oppressor, creating a
world of misunderstanding, ignorance, and suffering.
The novel is loaded with a plethora of imageries
of a hostile white world.
Wright shows how white
racism affects the behavior, feelings, and thoughts of Bigger.
“Everytime I think about it I feel like somebody’s poking a red-hot iron down my throat…We live here and they live there.
We black and they white.
They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t…I feel like I’m on the outside the world peeping in through a knot-hole in the fence…” (20).
Bigger’s sense of constriction and of
confinement is very palpable to the reader.
Wright also uses a more articulate voice to accurately describe the oppressive conditions of a Negro person. An anonymous black cellmate, a university student cries out, ”You make us live in such crowded conditions… that one out of every ten of us is insane…you dump all stale foods into the Black Belt and sell
them for more than you can get anywhere else…
You tax us, but you wont build hospitals…the
schools are so crowded that they breed perverts…you hire us last and fire us
first…” (318)
Bigger’s sense of constriction by the white world is so strong that he has no doubt that “something awful’s going to happen to me…” (21).
Nowhere in this novel can the reader see a greater example of Bigger’s fear and sense of constriction than in the accidental death of Mary
Dalton.
The allen-compassing fear that the white world has bred in Bigger takes over when he is in Mary’s room and in danger of being discovered
by Mrs. Dalton.
This internalized social
oppression literally forces his hands to hold the pillow over Mary’s face, suffocating her.
Bigger believes that a white person would assume that he was in the room to rape the white girl.
Bigger’s violent reaction to fear is inevitable.
When a person finds all outlets of expression and
development either closed or severely constrained, like Bigger’s, violence is often the instinctive reaction to oppression.
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