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- Racial discrimination
- The colonialists are: The doctor, the priest, pearl buyers
Those dehumanized
- The title Indians - Kino, the residents LA Paz brush houses, the beggars, fisher man
(i) Racial Discrimination
-The doctor, rear buyers and the priest belong to the same are
-He cannot go to the bush houses to treat Coyotito
-The doctor lives in luxury. Surrounded by high perimeter wall, yellow plastered building hugging the beach. He eats well, chocolates and sweet cake Pg 54
-The little Indians line in bush houses
-The doctor calls the Indians animals by saying that he is not a veterinary to treat them Pg 23
-The priest - did not bother baptizing Coyotito
-He had not married Kino an Juana before they had the Pearl - Pg 51
-The pearl buyers - Pg 42. They reached the lowest price the fisherman could not stand. They extorted them and made them perennially poor.
-For all the doctor’s race spoke to all Kino’s race as though they were simple animals. Pg 26
-Kino’s race felt weak, angry and afraid all at the same time.
-Pg 26. The doctor did not belong to the people. He was of a different race , that for nearly 400 years had beaten starved, robbed and despised Kino’s race that they came humbling to the doctor.
-Exploitation of the fishermen
-The pearl buyer’s pg 64. The happiest pearl buyer was the one who bought at the lowest price
(ii) Poverty
-There is a sharp contrast/difference between the dwellings of the little Indians and the Europeans
-They live in bush houses (in abject poverty), have little to eat, no lightning .This sharply contrasts to the doctor who lives in the plastered houses, in a gated area eats lavishly. Kino and family eat corn cake and pulque for breakfast
-The doctor lived in stone houses with inner cool gardens. There were caged birds and water fountains. He had good bacon for breakfast, lived in opulence, imported furniture, he also ate sweet biscuits and more chocolate for breakfast. He could afford a mistress
-Kino’s people made a little living from pearl harvesting with no proper diving equipments. He uses a stone and ropes and an inherited canoe Pg 35. When they sold the pearls , they earned too little to support themselves Kino couldn’t afford Coyotito’s treatment. He offered ugly misshapen seed pearls flattened and almost valueless. Pg 28
-Pg 776. They were cheated from birth to the overcharge of their coffins
-Pg 44. In the pearl, Kino saw himself and Juana kneeling at the high alter and they could pay.
-They were dressed well – we will have new clothes
(iii) Exploitation
-The pearl buyers wish to buy at the lowest price. The pearl buyer offered 1000 pesos but he knew the value of Kino’s pearl. He offered 1500 pesos when he realized Kino would not sell it
-There was only one pearl buyer who keep agents in separate offices to give a semblance of completion Pg 42
-They waited in their chairs until the pearls came in, and cackled, fought, shouted and threatened until they reached the lowest price a fishermen could stand Pg 42
-A fisherman had given his pearls to the Church in despair Pg 42
-Pg 34 the king of spin had helped to pat for the war and has decorated the churches for his soul sake. By the use of money from the sale of the pearls, this king had risen o be a great power in Europe. This happened at the expense of the poor fishermen.
- Pg 68. The priest brainwashed the poor by telling them to remain in the poor town not to go to get better prices for their pearls. He wanted them to remain ignorant and not to change their status
It was against religion ... the loss of a pearl was a punishment to those who left their stations. Each man and woman is like a soldier send by God to guard some part of the castle of the universe. Pg 68
(iv) Lack of Education
-The colonizes have education , have an upper hand, the doctor makes use of the Kino’s ignorance, lack of knowledge to poison Coyotito.
-Pg 45-46
-Kino says, My son will go to school
-My son will read and open the books, and my son will write and will know writing. And my son will make numbers, and those things will make us free because he will know - he will know and through him we will know.'
-Their ignorance was exploited by the pearl buyers, the doctor and the priest. Through education, however the little Indians, will be free.
marto answered the question on April 15, 2019 at 12:06
- Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.
THE PAUPER.
Pauper, pauper, craning your eyes
In all directions, in no direction!
What brutal force, malignant element, Dared to forge your piteous fate? Was it worth the effort, the time?
You limply lean on a leafless tree
Nursing the jiggers that shrivel your bottom
Like baby newly born to an old woman.
What crime, what treason did you commit
That you are thus condemned to human indifference?
And when you trudge on the horny pads,
Gullied like the soles of modern shoes,
Pads that even jiggers cannot conquer;
Does He admire your sense of endurance
Or turn his head away from your imprudent presence?
You sit alone on hairless goatskins,
Your ribs and bones reflecting the light That beautiful cars reflect on you, Squashing like between your nails. And cleaning your nails with dry saliva.
And when He looks at the grimy coating
Caking off your emaciated skin,
At the rust that uproots all your teeth
Like a pick on a stony piece of land,
Does He pat his paunch at the wonderful sight?
Pauper, pauper, crouching in beautiful verandas Of beautiful cities and beautiful people, Tourists and I will take your snapshots, And your M.P. with a shining head and triple chin
Will mourn your fate in a supplementary questions at question time.
(Adapted from poems from East Africa, by Cook and Rubadiri EDS)
i) Identify the persona in the poem above. (2 marks)
ii) What evidence from the poem suggest that the subject is poor? (4 marks)
iii) Comment on the writer's use of imagery in stanza two. (3 marks)
iv) Apart from the imagery indentified in
(iii) above, discuss any two other stylistic devices employed in the poem. (4 marks)
v) What is the persona's attitude towards the M.P. (2 marks)
vi) Discuss one theme brought out in the poem. (2 marks)
vii) Explain the meaning of the following words and expression as used in the poem. (3 marks)
a) Emaciated .
b) Crouching.
c) Gullied like the soles of modern shoes.
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interest. He waears and the tip of his long nose. His hair was an amazing yellow and wonder of wonders hid eyes were blue. Nevertheless he was
human and spoke with a human if strange voice - rather resonant with an unusual timbre, somewhat harsh to the ear.
“Great chief. I am a widow. My husband was the chief of Sakwa. We had two sons. The first one who would have
been chief died in the big war of the white people. His brother also died accidentally soon after taking over the chief?s stool. He left
one child, a son who is but a toddler. For this reason my late husband?s brother has taken over the chief?s stool supposedly in
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stool? May Were, God of the rising sun (the interpreter translated that simply as God) give his wisdom to you so that you can decide
this matter fairly. Thank you.” She sat down.
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was well aware how deeply these people were steeped in their tradition - they called it Chik. Chik governed every aspect of
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and chaos. Without Chik to tell each person where he fitted in the exact order of things, where he came from and where he
could expect to go, there would be confusion and apprehension. Very few rebelled and were outcast, cut off from the people
like a branch from a tree. The majority were glad to avail themselves of the surety it offered; to do and to be done by.
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further investigate this matter. Then the woman may bring her appeal in three months to the visiting District Commissioner. Next
case.”
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“Looks like it,” replied the twins.
“Don?t you think he should have decided? Aunts? case is after all so s actually white - not cloud white, but an indefinable translucent colour with spots of red on the cheeks, theAkoko and her nephews left the tribunal and went back to their benefactor?s home. They discussed the DO?s decision. “You
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“Looks like it,” replied the twins.
“Don?t you think he should have decided? Aunts? case is after all so clear.”
“May be he should have taken a longer time to think.”
“He probably does not understand the way of Chik. After all he is white.”
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b. What did the boys find wondrous about the DO? (1 mark)
c. In note form outline the traditional practices of the community in this excerpt. (5 marks)
d. Apart from traditions which other three themes are evident in this excerpt? (6 marks)
e. Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices employed in this extract. (4 marks)
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g. 'I think this Diyo will help me,'
(Rewrite the sentence and add a question tag) (1 mark)
h. What is the name of the benefactor mentioned in the extract?
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