Jorges P. Lopez
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Studying short stories can seem a Herculean task especially when one does t for the first time. However, this need not be the case. This book examines the FIRST FIVE stories in A SILENT SONG AND OTHER STORIES ED. BY GODWIN SIUNDU by outlining the most crucial aspects of the short story - SETTING, CONFLICT, THEME and STYLE so that the reader examines them one by one. This makes the study of the short story both exciting and easy. Also, the book (and...
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The study of the modern African novel has been quite a challenge both at the high school and at the university level. This is especially so for novels that address traditional tenets of the African society. These novels, however, form a good corpus as a basis for comparative literature, especially looking at the African novel as compared to its European or the American counterpart. Still, the odinary critic is used to earlier African writers including...
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Following the first book on John Steinbeck's The Pearl which examined the PLOT of the novella and the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novella to have a comprehensive view of what the novella is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of john Steinbeck in general or of this novel in particular, to answer any...
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Following the first book on Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World which examined the PLOT of the novel and the CHARACTERS this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novel to have a comprehensive view of what the novel is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of Kazuo Ishiguro in general or of this novel in particular,...
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Modern Literature has diversified into comparative literature and African Literature has become quite important in this field. This is because it not only tries to rewrite a lot about Africa which was biased according to Eurocentric writers but also because it incorporates a lot of issues uniquely African. These may have to do with the traditional African Societies as well as the evolution of new so-called modern African societies, more oriented to...
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This is another book among the several written on the theme og examinations. Often, students fail to do well in examinations, not because they have not read the text or prepared properly, but because they do not know how to present what they know to a second party. This is often a serious problem in college because nobody prepares the srudents on presentation. Most lecturers expect that the student has learnt this before, which is often not the case....
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We've all heard of the horrible stories about househelps and child trafficking around the world. The problem is especially rampant in the Middle East where girls from Africa and Asia are misused in the name of house maids. It seems nobody talks about this problem. Governments turn a blind eye or look the other way and pretend to be doing something about this problem even when many deaths of loved ones are reported. Sometimes we think - what the hell,...
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Following the first book on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House which examined the PLOT of the playand the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE in the play. This allows the critic of the playto have a comprehensive view of what the play is about, how it is crafted, who the major characters are and what kind of style the playwright adopts. This should prepare any student of Henrik ibsen in general or of this play and the rebel...
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The name MATATA in Kiswahili means troublesome. Jimmy gets this name from his grandfather who has a reputation in the village - but, of course, his becomes the dimunitative KATATA. And then he acquires another name - KARDA - from an American priest. So as we meet him in JIMMY KARDA, he is already loaded. In this episode however, Jimmy longs to get away from the boring city estate where he lives - and especially away from his sister who he considers...
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This book is intended to assist those students and teachers of the African novel who have a problem with question interpretation or in telling exactly how to arrive at a 10/10 mark. The book takes the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education's English papers 101/2 and 101/3 as its base. In these two papers, the student is supposed to answer an excerpt question - where an excerpt is taken from the studied novel and questions are set on it to test the...