Read the selection below from "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe and answer the question that follows.
"Awrighto. Now make we talk business. We no be bad tief. We no like for make trouble. Trouble done finish. War done finish
and all the katakata wey de for inside. No Civil War again. This time na Civil Peace. No be so?"
What is ironic about the lines above?
They are being said by a violent thief threating others with automatic rifles,
The violence is actually worse now that the war is over
During the war, the violence was committed by people. Now, it is commited by nature,
Violence is encouraged in Nigerian culture, so it would exist both in war and during peace
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Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.