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Waec 2017/2018 Literature In English (Prose And Obj) Answers
DIR By: anephy
Date: April 5, 2017, 3:51 am
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Number 1. Comment on the attitude of the people of kufi
towards superstition ? "Lonely days"
Answer:
*Superstitions: *The novel explains how superstitious
beliefs impact on
people’s
behaviour. For instance, wives were accused of killing
their husbands
because of
the belief that someone had to be responsible for every
death. They also
suspected feathered creatures like birds as they were
usually linked to
witchcraft.
*2. How is Ajumobi portrays in the novel "Native Son"?*
Through Yaremi’s reminiscences, the author introduces
his readers to
Ajumobi.
Ajumobi was a brave and powerful hunter who enjoyed
boasting of his prowess
as a
successful hunter. In his lifetime, he was firm and had
absolute control of
his household.
Ajumobi was a happy and lively man. Like most men in
Kufi, he liked
drinking palmwine
in the company of friends. He was quite ambitious. Prior
to his death, he
planned to
renovate his house and even take a second wife.
*Or*
*Ajumobi*
Ajumobi is Yaremi’s late husband. He was a brave hunter
who loved to boast
of his
hunting prowess. He died after a brief illness. He was an
ambitious man.
For instance,
prior to his death he planned to renovate his house and
take a second wife.
He was short
tempered and often reacted to Yaremi’s nagging. Like
other men in Kufi, he
beat Yaremi
on few occasions.
Number 3)
Ajumobi was a brave and powerful hunter who enjoyed
boasting
of his prowess as a successful hunter.
In his lifetime, he was firm and had absolute control of
his household.
Ajumobi was a happy and lively man.
Like most men in Kufi, he liked
drinking palmwine in the company of
friends. He was quite ambitious. Prior
to his death, he planned to renovate his house and even
take a second
wife. Yaremi loved her husband
greatly and in spite of their many
squabbles in his lifetime, she missed
his affection and companionship.
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Number 5
Mrs. Dalton’s literal blindness serves as a metaphor for
white people's social and cultural blindness. Just as she
couldn’t see that Bigger was in the room with her
daughter, or that Mary was actually dead, the white
characters in the novel are blind to the social realities
around them.
Character Analysis
Mrs. Dalton is a wealthy blind woman who takes an
interest (in a pandering, hobbyist sort of way) in the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) and encourages her husband to be
generous with their wealth and use it to change the lives
of blacks in Chicago. Mrs. Dalton’s physical blindness
proves to be an apt metaphor for her social and spiritual
blindness. Though she’s a religious and kindly woman,
she is completely blind to the fact that much of the
family’s ongoing wealth is gained through exploitation of
the same black people she’s trying to help.
In addition, much of the Daltons’ generosity, as Boris Max
points out, does very little to actually help anybody. (The
donation of money for ping-pong tables at a Boys Club is
one such example. Who even likes ping-pong?) Mrs.
Dalton represents a particular type of person: a liberal,
progressive white woman who fails to recognize the ways
she exploits the very people she claims to help.
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Number 6)
The use of irony in the text is called situational irony.
Bigger has always regarded every white person as his
mortal enemy and as fate will have it,a white friend is
brought his way. To him, Every white person is a symbol
of oppression. On the contrary, Mary Dalton is friendly to
bigger but bigger is ready to exhibit his disdain for white
folks as the same feelings is felt towards Jan too. On the
other hand, many and jam (the two white lovers ) shows
him love and friendliness which makes him ashamed of
himself. Both lovers are closing at the risk of disapproval
from their own folks. The two parties are actually
operating in total ignorance of the other's situation , a
condition brought about by years of unhealthy extreme
opinion of the other .
It is also ironical that jan,whom bigger tried blame his
murder of Mary on, would later take step to free the same
bigger of culpability in the crime. He is the one who brings
max to Bigger to act as his counsel during his
arraignment.
Another ironic situation is noticed with the respect of
bigger's freedom. While restricted to a cell in prison , he
feels free whereas outside, he feels prisoned.
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4)
In Kufi, wives were accused of killing their husbands
because of the belief that someone had to be responsible
for every death. They also suspected feathered creatures
like birds as they were usually linked to witchcraft
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