Jorges P Lopez
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A major problem in the study of literature is the students approach to questions. This may result from inability to tell exactly what examiners look for. To address this problem, this book looks at how to answer questions in literature. It examines the required approach to both excerpt and essay questions, the majority of ways in which literature questions are presented in high school, colleges and universities. For the essay, the book loks at how...
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The study of the modern African novel has been quite a challenge both at the high school and at the university level. This is especially so for novels that address traditional tenets of the African society. These novels, however, form a good corpus as a basis for comparative literature, especially looking at the African novel as compared to its European or the American counterpart. Still, the odinary critic is used to earlier African writers including...
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Reading the African novel is a challenging task.This is more so when a novel is as long and wide and complex as Margaret Ogola's famous novel The River and the Source. This guide book however makes your task easy. It divides the novel into four distinct sections and examines them one by one. It then gives you tips on how to approach CONTEXT and ESSAY questions based on this novel - with good examples - and helps you deal with other novels in the same...
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Poetry is one of the most challenging subjects. It has been a big challenge both to study it and even to write it because it has inherent rules that determine how it works. To interpret it, understand it or even write it, one needs to understand these rules. Any good poetry enthusiast, critic or writer begins here. This book tries to make the reader understand the bulk of these rules. It uses some of the most exciting and popular poetry through time...
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For students studying European drama and especially 20th century drama, Bertolt Brecht is a central question. This book analyzes the PLOT and the CHARACTERS of Bertolt Brecht's famous play THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, giving self-directing questions which help the student in the analysis and guide into the study of similar drama. The characters and their ROLES are also examined. Unlike many literary criticism guides on drama, this book examines only...
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This book draws its inspiration from the age-old conflict between the sexes. Men have forever been in conflict with women over who can do what, who should do what, and probably to put it more succintly, who can do what better than the other. This conflict is even sharper in the youth with young women going for careers formerly meant for the male gender, such as politics - and most science based careers. This novella focuses on games. In the story,...
8) Amy
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We have all got to that point where we are about to engage in something new...and we are not sure how to continue. We have all had that chance when we go to a new school or a new class and we are afraid of the reception. Some of our parents have dotted on us in basic or primary school...until it gets to a point when we have to leave them and manage on our own...AMY is a COMING OF AGE novella in which a teenage girl gets to that point where she has...
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Modern Literature has diversified into comparative literature and African Literature has become quite important in this field. This is because it not only tries to rewrite a lot about Africa which was biased according to Eurocentric writers but also because it incorporates a lot of issues uniquely African. These may have to do with the traditional African Societies as well as the evolution of new so-called modern African societies, more oriented to...
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The earlier published book The Elements of Poetry by Jorges P Lopez contains many poems for practice meant for the reader to examine understanding of what is taught in the book. To make this possible, the book gives twenty-six popular poems with questions based on the elements of petry discussed in the book. This second book, Notes on The Elements of Poetry by Jorges P Lopez, gives the answers to these practice questions. This is in recognition of...
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The study of the Afican novel is often challenging to both the teacher and the student in high schools and colleges. This is because, apart from many modern African novels being multi-faceted, many teachers and students still use the traditional methods of analysis. Often, such methods leave the reader with a lot of knowledge about the particular text, but with few literary skills that can be used on other literary texts or even other genres. This...
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Boys will be boys. They will go out of their way to take advantage of one and all. They tell simple lies and get away with it. Sometimes they tell big lies that cause disasters. But they will never learn. They will never realize that the adult and parent world they deal with is a lot wiser than them; after all, it comes with experience. It is not always, however, that a boy will be mischievous out of malice. Sometimes they may be moved to action by...
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In November/December 2007, a violent eruption of hatred and crime burst out in Kenya. Many, especially the international community claimed it had been set off by the elections which had been held that December. The International community then brought the combatants together in the names of the contending presidential candidates in that election. Finally, a coalition government was established. It went on to rule for five years. A prosecutor from...
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There aren't many stories which focus wholly at teaching kids to improve their spoeaking and writing skills, especially those kids learning English as a second language. Even the ones available are just stiries which sometimes focus on morality and good behavior. The JIMMY DIARIES SERIES combines all three. It aims at telling kids stories that are muromour enough to pull them away from the TV and the mobile phone. The series also focuses on improving...
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This book focuses on how to answer questions based on the novel. Specifically, it deals with or uses examples drawn from John Steinbeck's famous novella The Pearl. First, the book examines how to interpret questions by considering what various question words mean, giving a sample question that uses a particular question words, then suggests how that question should be approached. Second, the book examines how to respond to a sample excerpt question...
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This book should be read as a sequel to book 1 in the series. While book 1 examines the plot and the characters, this second book follows with themes and elements of style in Adipo Sidang's play, Parliament of Owls. The book not only discusses the themes of the play but also ensures that the reader understabds what a theme is. This should allow the reader to transfer this knowledge to other books and genres of literature. The book also discusses the...
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Africa has been bedevilled by many evils over the last few cunturies. The latest stem from colonialism and the resultant control of African nations and the way they govern themselves in post-independent Africa. This hass seen control through coups initiated by the West and economic exploitation through the control of not only the governments but also their mode of finance. The latter is Paul B Vitta's focus in his novel FATHERS OF NATIONS. This critique...
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The Caribbean has had its fair share of Literary critics over the last two centuries - but they can never be enough. John Lara is a fiarly modern writer whose play The Samaritan is an appropriate criticism of modern governments in the Caribbean. This book aims at giving a better insight into the concerns of John Lara in this modern play as well as examining the style of the play. It will be found crucial to the reader of caribbean literature and especially...
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This book teaches readers, especially students of drama in high school and colleges, how to respond to questions. This is because, often, students do not fail because they do not know; poor performance results from inability to interpret questions appropriately and therefore, poor response to them. This book approaches this problem in a number of ways. First, it teaches the reader how to interpret question words, giving enough questions to show how...
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Studying short stories can seem a Herculean task especially when one does t for the first time. However, this need not be the case. This book examines the FIRST FIVE stories in A SILENT SONG AND OTHER STORIES ED. BY GODWIN SIUNDU by outlining the most crucial aspects of the short story - SETTING, CONFLICT, THEME and STYLE so that the reader examines them one by one. This makes the study of the short story both exciting and easy. Also, the book (and...