Saturday, 23 November 2019

Thinking activity on A Grain of wheat and Robinson Crusoe



Introduction
Grain of Wheat is a novel written  by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo. It is about the  Kenyan people’s fight for independence fromBritish rule. The novel is historically connected in the novel village of Thabai symbolizes as Kenyan society. It is depicted as a community. Their inhabitants are astonished by the discovery of a betrayer of the Mau Mau movement on the eve of independence.  The novel is highly based on the fight against the colonial rule for freedom.
   In the novel the central narrative is the freedom against colonial power .The beginning of the novel the movement happens against independence.It highly detected the struggle of the Kenya people from colonial rule.
    The novel focus on the number of characters experiences during the Kenyan independence of uhuru movement. Mugo is one of the central character of the novel.Mugo is connected with the woman in the hut is central element in novel.
The old woman has lost her son and never talk anybody.She live loneliness .Mugo was freedom fighter.He is very respected person or kenya. Later on Mugo confesses his crime that he has betrayed kihika. So in the novel  how people tortured by someone.The novel a grain of wheat is the national anti colonial struggle against British rule.Mau - Mau movement has historical background in history of Africa.It depicts the struggles of Kenya for getting freedom means Uhuru.


Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe represents a culture, religion and an ideology.Robinson was the master and he stands for the English imperialism, capitalism.He was English colonization.
  Robinson Crusoe taught friday gave him name of Friday.Friday was black man and he was his servent. Robinson Crusoe taught him about religion,language , wear to cloth and gave some knowledge about religion.So we can see white master and black servent relationship.
So 

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