Ngugi wa Thiong’o 1938- (Born James Thiong’o Ngugi; also transliterated as Ngũgĩ) Kenyan novelist‚ playwright‚ essayist‚ short story writer‚ children’s writer‚ and critic. The following entry presents an overview of Ngugi’s career through 2002. See also Ngugi wa Thiong’o Criticism. As a spokesman for his people and a chronicler of Kenya’s modern history‚ Ngugi is widely regarded as one of the most significant writers of East Africa. His first novel‚ Weep Not‚ Child (1964)‚ was the first English-language
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As humans‚ people often times create their own ideas and perceptions over certain individuals or a place. In Goodbye‚ Columbus‚ by Philip Roth‚ the story’s main character‚ Neil falls into that trap when he meets a girl‚ Brenda‚ and his entire life is turned upsides down. “and though we did not want to go‚ the little boy and I‚ the boat was moving and there was nothing we could do about it” (Roth 74). When Philip Roth decided to add Neil’s dream of him and the little boy visiting an island and then
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However‚ in Mango “Says Goodbye Sometimes” she still hates that house‚ but she feels like she is more a part of it. “In the House On Mango Street” Esperanza has no desire to go back to that house in the future‚ although in “Mango Says Goodbye” Esperanza wants to come back to her house in the future to say hello to all her neighbors and all her friends that she once knew before she escaped. She finds all the cons in living in a house like that. Yet in “Mango Says Goodbye” Esperanza finds all the
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“It always takes about 10 years to have some distance. And distance allows you to laugh about yourself and things you wouldn’t dare laugh about when you’re right in the middle of it‚” director of Goodbye‚ Lenin!‚ Wolfgang Becker‚ stated in an interview discussing the movie. Goodbye‚ Lenin! focuses on the drastic shift in the lives of East Germans following the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the rise of communist nation‚ Russia‚ after World War II‚ came the conflict between communist and capitalist
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forum to share the stories and shed light on the experiences of people in groups that get overlooked. Omar Sakr’s powerful poem ‘The H word’ explores issues of poverty and danger in the daily lives of disadvantaged people and draws attention to the idea of a safe‚ happy home environment that isn’t the same for people who aren’t privileged. Similarly‚ Kevin Gilbert’s haunting poem “Kiacatoo”‚ serves as a tool to tell the stories of Aboriginal people and the massacres that were otherwise swept under the
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James Hilton’s novel Goodbye‚ Mr. Chips is the story of an English schoolmaster who dedicated his entire adult life teaching young boys. He was a somewhat shy person. Nevertheless he was a competent school teacher‚ professional and attractive in many different ways. Although his first teaching experience was not successful‚ he was determined to become a good schoolmaster. After coming to Brookfield‚ he began to warm up to his students. But more important he brought discipline to his school which
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Year of Impossible Goodbyes is book where girl face war with her family and her life is like in the country North Korea and towards the end how she escapes to the south.In beginning of the book it talks about how Sookan had a grandfather and how he has medicated under his pink tree and how he teaches her how to wise peaceful person.After with grandfather everyday sookan go’s to town with her mother to the sock factory to work on socks and how Captain Norita has to watch them work and they
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Goodbye‚ Lenin is a heart-warming film about a son’s attempt to make time stand still in order to keep his sick mother from knowing the truth about the political changes. His mother‚ Christiana‚ is a strong political activist in the Socialist party in East Germany. She becomes ill after she sees her son‚ Alex‚ protesting in the streets‚ she falls into a coma after suffering a heart attack. During the eight months she is in a coma‚ the Berlin Wall comes down and capitalism floods in from the west
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Not able to control its own country‚ Korea is taken over by the oppressions of both Japan and Russia. In the novel Year of Impossible Goodbyes‚ by Sook (Sookan) Nyul Choi‚ we are taken through her life as she grows up under the influences of Japan and Russia. Her family is separated while Japan ruled over them; when the Russians move in‚ her family is torn between North and South Korea; the 38th Parallel is all that separates them. Soon Sookan‚ as well as her mother and brother‚ find all means of
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February 19‚ 2000 Analyzing a Poem Variation on the Word Sleep by Margret Atwood This is a poem about going into a dream. The speaker wants to sleep with a loved one and go into their dream and protect them from the subconscious fears. The speaker also wants to bring the loved one back from the dream safely and shelter that person. The speaker wants to be very important in the other person’s life. The poem’s idea is clear in but the poem has a lot of words that help readers understand her
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