She stoops to conquer Act 1 Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle who live in an old house that looks like an inn awaits the arrival of Marlow, son of Mr. Hardcastle’s old friend who is also going to be a husband to their daughter Kate. In the story, Kate is depicted to be so close to… Continue reading She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith – Summary
Category: Prose
Summary of In Independence by Manyika ladipo Sarah
Summary of In Independence by Manyika ladipo Sarah Chapter One In chapter one, the story begins with preparations for Tayo’s imminent journey from Ibadan, Nigeria to England to take up a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford; a scholarship which was in the past exclusively reserved for the whites, such that Tayo is the first Nigerian… Continue reading Summary of In Independence by Manyika ladipo Sarah
Native Son — Plot
Native Son -- Plot The story opens at the Thomas’ home. There lives Mrs. Thomas and her three children, Bigger, Vera and Buddy Thomas. Bigger who is the protagonist of the story is to attend a job interview in the evening by 5:30. The family’s government relief will be cut off if Thomas did not… Continue reading Native Son — Plot
FACELESS – SUMMARY OF THE STORY
SUMMARY OF THE STORY BOOK ONE ATTEMPTED RAPE As the novel opens, fourteen year old Fofo is seen sleeping on an old cardboard at Agbogbloshie market. She has a job at the vegetable market in Agbogbloshie where she washes carrots. The market is close to a slum known as Sodom and Gomorrah. When she is… Continue reading FACELESS – SUMMARY OF THE STORY
FACELESS – theme, techniques
FACELESS – THEMES, TECHNIQUES Theme of superstition In the prose, the characters believed that certain spiritual phenomena affects the lives of people. Maa Tsuru is believed to have been cursed by her mother to suffer in life. She herself believed this including her husband and mother-in-law. More so, Onko, the character who raped Baby-T, is… Continue reading FACELESS – theme, techniques
FACELESS – summary of the story
FACELESS - summary of the story BOOK ONE ATTEMPTED RAPE As the novel opens, fourteen year old Fofo is seen sleeping on an old cardboard at Agbogbloshie market. She has a job at the vegetable market in Agbogbloshie where she washes carrots. The market is close to a slum known as Sodom and Gomorrah.… Continue reading FACELESS – summary of the story
Faceless – Settings, Plot, Cast
Biography of the author Amma Darko was born in Koforidua, Ghana, on June 26, 1956, and she grew up in Accra. She studied in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, and gained a diploma in 1980. She worked with a Technology Consultancy Centre in Kumasi. She was born Ophelia Darko. "Amma" is a… Continue reading Faceless – Settings, Plot, Cast
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