LITERATURE SOLUTION
SECTION I
3)
MALUGUS DECEITFUL AND CORRUPTION : Throughout the play, The Blood of a Stranger, deceit permeates every aspects of the characters' lives especially the antagonist such as Whitehead, Maligu, Parker and Soko. Maligu's deception is made known from his plans to make fortune from the white man's visit, at the expense of the people of Mandoland. This is evident in his conversation with Soko, from whom he canvasses support for his mischief. To the morally dangling priest, he says: "Do you want to die a poor man?" Similarly, Soko deceives the entire village regarding the coming of the white man when he lies that the oracle has indeed prophesied the event and that a virgin girl be sacrificed. In addition, the white man, Whitehead, and his assistant, Parker, connive to rob the village of her naturally endowed diamond while fooling the king and the palace chiefs that his mission is to empower the villagers through tobacco farming. With this, Charley seems to portray the deceptive and amoral means, which the White colonialists used in raping their colonies, African countries, of their God-given natural resources.
SECTION II
8)Lena Younger, a.k.a. Mama, totally rocks our world. She's a down-to-earth, hard-working black woman who doesn't suffer fools. Mama has dedicated her life to her children and struggles to instill her values in them – with mixed results. One of Lena's most poignant moments might be when she admits to Ruth that sometimes her children frighten her. This is one of those sad and beautiful moments that make her character seem truly human.
Throughout the play, Lena struggles to con
SECTION III
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Dinner tonight comes with gun wounds. Our desert tongues lick the vegetable blood—the pepper strong enough to push scorpions up our heads. Guests look into the oceans of bowls as vegetables die on their tongues. The table that gathers us is an island where guerillas walk the land while crocodiles surf. Children from Alphabeta with empty palms dine with us; switchblades in their eyes, silence in their voices. When the playground is emptied of children`s toys who needs roadblocks? When the hour to drink from the cup of life ticks, cholera breaks its spell on cracked lips Under the spilt milk of the moon, I promise to be a revolutionary, but my Nile, even without tributaries comes lazy upon its own Nile. On this night reserved for lovers of fire, I’m full with the catch of gun wounds, and my boots have suddenly become too reluctant to walk me.
SECTION IV
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The poem “The Pulley” illustrates the relationship between God and man especially his benevolence to man. The first stanza describes how God made man and blessed him with worldly riches: “When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by”. The stanza also portrays the concept of Trinity as seen in the Biblical creation story in Genesis: “Let us, said he pour on him all we can.
In the second stanza, God actually poured his blessings of strength, beauty, wisdom, honour and pleasure on man but withheld one important blessing- The Gift of Rest: “Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure, Rest in the bottom lay”.
In the third stanza, God gave his reason for withholding the gift of rest from man. He withdrew this blessing because he felt giving man the gift of rest would make him conceited or excessively proud and man may not worship him: “He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in nature, not the God of Nature”. With the withdrawal of rest from man, man is thrown into perpetual restlessness so that he can always remember his creator whether as a result of goodness.
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LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PAPER II
DRAMA AND POETRY
SECTIONI
AFRICAN DRAMA
Answer one question from either af the texts in this section
Each question carries 25 marks.
Frank Ogodo Ogbeche Harvest Of Corruption
1. With adequate textual iltustralions, discuss the theme of deéperation
2. Whatever you sow, you shuall reap". Discuss this assertion in relation to Chief Ade Amakn's role in the play
Dele Charley: Ths Blood ofa Siranger
3. Discuss Maligu as a corrupt and decetful cheracter
4.With a close referenec to the play, discuss the use of symbolism
SECTION 11
NON-AFRICAN DRAMA
Answer one question from either of the tests in this scction.
Each question carrics 25 marks
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
5. Give a detailed account of Martow's acts of rudeness to Mr Hardcastie
6. What sre the contributions of Marlow to the development of the play?
Lorraine Hansberry & Raisin in the Sun
7. Compare and contrast Mama's and Walter's dreams, showing their significance in the play.
8. "Lena Younger is a strong motivational force" Disenss.
SECTION III
AFRICAN POETRY
Answer one question from this section
Each question carries 25 marks.
9. Discuss the themes of poverty and suffering in Birago Diop's "Vanity"
10. Give a detailed account of Gbanabom Hallowcll's The Dining Table"
SECTION IV
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Answer one question from this section.
Each question carries 25 marks
11.Discuss the use of plant imagery to reflect life experiences in Robert Frost's "Birches"
12.What are the messages contained in "The Pulley" by George Herbert?
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