How do the connections between the two texts enrich the meaning of each text? When considered on their own, texts are constructed to create meaning and impart that meaning on a responder. However when two linked texts a considered together, their meanings are enriched as the responder can compare both texts, and take extra meaning from how the two texts differ and agree with each other, by evaluating which is more effective. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice when read in isolation can be a simple bildungsroman narrative about the maturation of a young woman. However if the responder were to read Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen, the connections between the two would shape and then reshape the responder’s understanding of both texts.
Kambili’s life changes after she is beaten by Eugene and then leaves her house to live with Eugene’s sister Ifeoma, who encourages her children to share their thoughts and feelings. While living with Aunty Ifeoma, Kambili realized that she could defy Eugene’s strict views of Catholicism, and adopt the more liberal form of Catholicism practiced by Aunty Ifeoma – one that can still recognize the traditions of the Igbo people –the culture her grandfather, Papa Nnukwu. The Religious beliefs of Papa Nnukwu, Eugene, and Father Amadi show the different religious ideologies of three different generations of Nigerian people. The religious beliefs of Papa Nnukwu portray the beliefs of colonial Nigerians. Papa Nnukwu, Kambili’s grandfather, was the head of the whole Achike family.
“Was that why I was here? Not only to insure the survival of one accident-prone small boy, but to insure my family’s survival, my own birth.” (Page 29). It isn’t until Dana’s second trip into the ante bellum Maryland that this idea of how crucial the survival of Rufus – her ancestor – is to her. Theoritically, the survival of Rufus and the birth of Hagar will warrant the birth of Dana so it’s only natural that Dana struggles to save Rufus despite the fact he mentally and physically abuses her by having her whipped, forcing her to work in the cotton field which strips Dana of her dignity and identity as an independent woman. As Carrie points out to Dana, “Margaret Weylin could not run the plantation.
‘Why is Sixty Lights worthy of critical study and inclusion on the HSC Prescriptions List for module B- Critical Study of Text?’ The novel Sixty Lights has been included on the HSC Prescriptions List for Module B because it is worthy for critical study as it is a diverse piece of literature covering significant topics that have been ignored in the modern world. We enter the lyrical and image-laden world of Sixty Lights. It’s a tale, resplendent in colour and imagery, set across two worlds - the constrained and stilted world of Victorian England, and the chaotic danger and abandon of India. Gail Jones creates literature, like Shakespeare, but in this particular piece explores the significance behind photographs and what they represent.
Patrick Lewis’ heroism throughout the novel derives from his curiosity and desire for knowledge. Patrick’s heroism links him to the theme of power and authority as well as central conflicts throughout the novel. Firstly, Patrick’s heroism is exposed when his curiosity leads him to the Riverdale Library where he discovers Nicholas Temelcoff had worked on the Bloor Street Viaduct and was known as a daredevil. Patrick confronts Nicholas with a picture of him and some other workers: Patrick pulls out the photograph and places it in front of Temelcoff…Nicholas Temelcoff never looks back. He will drive the bakery van over the bridge with his wife and children and only casually mention his work there…Patrick’s gift, that arrow into the past, shows him the wealth in himself, how he has been sewn into history.
A key period is the time Kambili and her brother spend at the house of her father’s sister, Ifeoma, and her three children. This household offers a marked contrast to what Kambili and Jaja are used to. Though Catholic, it practices a completely different form of Catholicism, making for a happy, liberal place that encourages its members to speak their minds. In this nurturing environment both Kambili and Jaja become more open, more able to voice their own opinions. Importantly, also, while at Aunty Ifeoma’s, Kambili falls in love with a young priest, Father Amadi, which awakens her sense of her own sexuality.
Beyond the Odds of the Red Hibiscus: A Critical Reading of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus by Anthony C. Oha Department of Arts, Benson Idahosa University Benin City- Nigeria But my memories did not start at Nsukka. They started before, when all the hibiscuses in our front yard were a startling red. (Purple Hibiscus, 16) Abstract Fiction in Africa has taken a new turn with the production of realities in factional modes. The need to tell the story from the ‘inside’ could have been one of the reasons for these significant literary productions. In Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie, there is a critical presentation of the oddities in Nigeria as well as Africa in general, as the continent trudges in the biting tyrannical trauma of the military and anarchical leaderships.
Contents Introduction Chronology 11 14 Chapter 1: Background on Chinua Achebe 1. The Life of Chinua Achebe G.D. Killam In writing his seminal novel about Africa, Chinua Achebe established himself as the most prominent African writer of his generation. In all his work, Achebe has focused on dispelling the idealized images of his own people and depicting them as they live in the real world. 19 2. Chinua Achebe’s Philosophy of Fiction Jerome Brooks, interviewing Chinua Achebe Achebe recounts in an interview that his first attraction to the art of storytelling was a result of the stories told in his home as a child.
This essay focuses on the forms of patriarchy presented in the novel and how each utilizes violence and silence as forms of control over the mother and children of the Achike family. The family patriarch, Eugene, the patriarchal religious leaders and the corruption of the patriarchal government attempt to control home, parish and nation through silence and violence. The silencing of a people through corruption and abuse and the use of silence are powerful weapons used by dictators and tyrants. Nigeria’s colonization and loss of identity and cultural difference by the British is a form of silence of the peoples. Having been colonized in 1900 by the United Kingdom, the newly formed Nigeria was a number of independent and hostile states with linguistic and cultural differences that did not easily combine.
The Rastafarian Movement has its origins during the eighteenth century; British landowners needed a large workforce and imported several African slaves to Jamaica to work on sugar plantations. These slaves fought to keep their African traditions. (Abram, Hamann, “The Rastafarian Movement”) Rastafari theology was greatly influenced by Marcus Garvey, when he began his teachings in the 1920’s, and led the “Back to Africa Movement”. In 1927 Garvey once said to his followers that their king shall be crowned in Africa. In 1930 a man named Ras Tafari Makonnen became emperor of Ethiopia; at his coronation he took the name Haile Selassi, “Might of the Trinity”.