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Livingston gives her readers mini anecdotes which provide an insight to improvised cancer treatment in Botswana. As such, many of the images she works to conjure with her language are shocking such as the description of humanizing a woman who had recently died by cleaning her body. Even the extensive description of necrotic wounds, the way they look and smell sought to shock the reader into comprehending the rise of cancer in Africa. In class students expressed discontent with the passivity of this work which pointed out the horrors of late stage untreated cancer without providing policy to improve treatment within the region. This demonstrates that Livingston effectively used a shocking tone to help illuminate the growing problem of cancer development

The novel begins in Bayo, a small village in West Africa. Here, Aminata is exposed to a strong

The characters presented in Stephen Minot’s “Rwanda” create an air of literary sophistication within the work, mainly through means of dialogue and thought. However, other narrative modes are incorporated into the short story as well. These include exposition, action, and some description. Minot’s writing is rather simplistic in style, but literarily it is very much so sophisticated. Despite being somewhat predictable, “Rwanda” implements a variety of well-executed narrative modes that transmutes the story into a meaningful and refined piece of prose.

3.) He is forced to work-k as a porter, to sweep out the goldsmith shop instead of working as an apprentice.

10. What is the lesson about freedom and free people that the author wants the reader to learn from this story?

In this excerpt you are introduced to a young African boy, Olaudau Equiano, who begins to describe his everyday life before being captured. Olaudau, who is the youngest of six sons but not the youngest child, who in which is his sister. As a child, he was raised and trained in both agriculture and war, receiving a great deal of emblems in javelin throwing and shooting. However, at the age of eleven, Olaudau’s life changed forever. One day while the elders went to the fields, two men and a women invaded their camp and swiftly kidnapped Olaudau and his younger sister; thus beginning his life as a slave. “The first object which saluted my eyes when I

In 1949, many African nations began their surge for independence, and the native people did not accept the social modifications forced upon them. The revelation of the setting comes through the name “Ndume Central School” which is a school located within the African nation of Nigeria (595). Later, the setting reveals the deep divisions that take place in Africa at the time and allows the reader to understand why the villagers resists change. The separation between the school and village symbolizes the division, and this separation captures a modern school fighting a traditional village. Obi enforces the separation with the moving of the path and states that this new path should “[skirt] our premises” (597). The setting enhances the conflict between the villagers and Obi because the Africans at the time resisted the change that Obi enforced within the school. The setting of the school and village enhances the conflict because the school represents the transformation of society, while the village captures the stubborn, old way of living.

4. ?After the funeral, when he saw her preparing to go away, he was seized with as unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm, and before he knew what he was doing he asked her to stay there with him. He had often though since that it would not have happened if his mother had died in spring instead of winter...?

Sierra Leone has been involved in a humungous amount of absurd human rights violations since 1991 when the civil war erupted. This detailed paper on the book, A Long Way Gone, set in Sierra Leone, will create interest by summarizing the memoir through descriptive examples and text on symbolism and imagery. The author of this memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is Ishmael Beah, it's difficult to believe that this is a true and harsh story. You will be learning about Ishmael's resilience and the horrible struggles he faced as a child soldier, while somehow continuing to have hope. Ishmael Beah, 12 at the beginning of this memoir, unexpectedly gets recruited into a time consuming war over blood diamonds, against the rebels as a young child. Ishmael is at a loss, since with his own eyes he viewed not only his loving family, but his whole village as it was horrifically torn down by the dangerous rebels. Ishmael is not physically lonely during the book, but he is emotionally

The first chapter entitled “Home”, opens with a market scene somewhere in a remote African village. Initially, the villagers are depicted as going about their daily lives, trading for

During this conversation, the narrator asks, “Old woman, what is this freedom you love so well?” to which she responds, “I done forgot, son. It’s all mixed up. First I think it’s one thing, then I think it’s another. It gits my head to spinning” (Ellison, 11). In chapter eleven, the narrator himself struggles with freedom, both abstractly and physically.

He makes freedom seem like something so far and undesirable. The main goal of people in this society is to aim for this subordinate fun lifestyle. The consequence of this saddening world is the incapability of discovering true happiness and

Equiano presents himself as an African, who is embattled with a myriad of issues enroute to a foreign land. He starts off as a normal African boy that takes pride in the family unit. His life changes as he is exposed to a life of slavery that makes him wonder just how far he would go to regain his freedom. Equaino is celebrated due to his anti-slave trade achievements, but rather criticized for a lack of authenticity in his plight to free the world of slavery. He begins his narrative with a brief insight into the person he was before being captured. We discover a identity that is in the norm for African society. He presents himself as an African from Essaka, which is in Eboe, and what is currently referred to as Nigeria. Equiano was born in 1745 and was a member of the royal family. Moreover, he presents himself as a common African boy but his family and origins state otherwise. Equiano is engaged in a family that from the onset practiced its form of slavery through ownership of servants. His father gives the audience a sense of hypocrisy on Equiano’s part when he rebukes slave trade. The identity of the character Equiano is immediately casted into doubt (Olaudah, 111).

Many of the characters in this book suffer, both physically and mentally, from their lack of true freedom. In the text, Keita says “My existence is a violation of the law.” Because he is an “illegal”, he is being hunted down by two governments, the one he fled and the one he’s hiding in. Keita cannot live a normal life because he is constantly worried about being captured or killed. He and others like him are also not free from the negative stereotypes and prejudices that follow them everywhere. In the text, it says “Keita inhaled the scent of pine. Odd, to find such welcoming trees in this hostile land. Perhaps if he were free, he could appreciate all of this beauty.” This demonstrates how Keita is so affected by his lack of freedom that he cannot enjoy life. Another character in the book, an elderly woman named Ivernia, struggles with her ideas about freedom as the government decides whether to take away many of her privileges, the ability to drive for example. In the text, it says “Ivernia wondered how this judge enjoyed making decisions about the lives of old people-their freedom or loss of independence. Did this man ever think that he would one day be old?” Ivernia has such a hard time dealing with this that she contemplates suicide. These characters reflect the greater idea of how, without a sense of freedom, one cannot be genuinely

David Sedaris’s narrative, “Remembering my Childhood on the Continent of Africa,” contrasts the author’s formative years with those of his partner, Hugh Hamrick. Sedaris describes his childhood in North Carolina as “unspeakably dull” (297). Conversely, Sedaris seems to regard Hamrick’s childhood, which included “a field trip to an Ethiopian slaughterhouse” (296) and “a military coup in which forces sympathetic to the colonel arrived late at night to assassinate [his] next door neighbor” (298-299) as foreign and exciting, if in an occasionally traumatizing sort of way.