Choose two of the following essay prompts. Respond to each in a paragraph. Write your (16 points) answer in complete sentences. (16 pts )
Prompt I. In both "Marriage Is a Private Affair" and "A Meeting in the Dark," young men fret
that their fathers will disapprove of their potential wives. Compare these two stories by
looking at how the personalities of the young men and their fathers help to shape the eventual
outcomes.
Prompt II. Examine how white people and black people regard each other in "No Witchcraft
for Sale," "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off," and "The Prisoner Who wore Glasses."
How do they help to both teach and support each other, and how do they fail? Think about
what each group is trying to protect and when it withholds something from the other.
Prompt III. A theme that runs through the poems in this unit is that a sense of pride is
important to a sense of self-worth. What do you think is the connection between this theme and
Africa's history of colonial rule? Support your view with details from at least two of the
selections you have read.

Explanation:

PROMPT 1:

The questions seeks to know how the different young mens and their fathers' personalities affected the events of the 2 stories. The commonality between the 2 stories is that they both involve young men who are worried about their fathers' disapproval of their wives. The question asks how this happened even if the young men and their fathers have different personalities. Focus on how their personalities affected what happened in the 2 stories. A completely hypothetical example is because one of the young men was very unsociable, it was difficult for him to talk to his father about his wife which led to his fathers' non-acceptance of the wife.

PROMT 2:

In "A Meeting in the Dark", the young man in the story opted to kill the woman the claims that he loves for fear of being found out by his father. The woman was pregnant with is child. The young man was very selfish because he wanted to be held in high esteem in society. He prefer to commit murder than be seen as someone other than what image he presented to the community.

PROMT 3:

The people of Africa were ruled by people of different cultures and by the people from different countries. They had a history of colonial rule where they were a colony of many countries.

But despite being ruled by people of different cultures, the people of Africa had pride in their own culture. This gave these people a sense of self worth. The Africans had pride in their own culture, in their own language and their own nation.

jim mohr

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