Explore the Ways Writer’s Present Conflict in Your Selection of 3-5 Poems from the Collection Different Cultures You Have Studied

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James Addis GCSE English (evening class) Dyslectic Explore the ways writer’s present conflict in your selection of 3-5 poems from the collection different cultures you have studied. Not My Business by Niyi Osundare The writer of the poem “Not my Business” writes about an inner conflict of the character has on wherether to get involved against a milatry regime that are taking over the area and forcing people to conform to their way. The poet writes “what business of mine is it” the character does set himself a line that if the regime take away he’s food that when he see the need to step in “As long they don’t take the yam from my savouring mouth?” The poet also writes about people’s work being disrupted and people being sacked on the spot without any conversasion. “Chinwe went to work one day only to find her job was gone: No query, no warning and no probe just one neat sack for a stainless record.” And again the character says as long as it does not affect him “What business of mine is it so long they don’t take the yam from my savouring mouth.” But then come the point when the milatry regime come and knock at his door “And the one evening, as i sat to eat my yam, A knock on the door froze my hungry hand” at this point the character start to come to realise that he should of stood up for other people around him rather than have this stand offish atittued to the people that surround him. The character is taken into the regime as there is nobody left to stand up for/with him. I do also think that the character does think that he has let the reigime do as they please so they should let him do the same, but it is not like that. “The jeep was waiting on my bewildered lawn, Waiting, waiting in its usual silence”. James Addis GCSE English (evening class) Dyslectic Explore the ways writer’s present conflict in your selection of 3-5 poems from the

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