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This is response blog task given by my teacher Yesha Bhatt in this blog we have to give descriptive ans of any one out of three.
Author Introduction
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, original name James Thiong’o Ngugi, (born January 5, 1938, Limuru, Kenya), Kenyan writer who was considered East Africa’s leading novelist. His popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel in English by an East African. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, Ngugi adopted his traditional name and wrote in the Bantu language of Kenya’s Kikuyu people.
Ngugi received bachelor’s degrees from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in 1963 and from Leeds University, Yorkshire, England, in 1964. After doing graduate work at Leeds, he served as a lecturer in English at University College, Nairobi, Kenya, and as a visiting professor of English at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S. From 1972 to 1977 he was senior lecturer and chairman of the department of literature at the University of Nairobi.
Petals of Blood is a 1977 novel by Ngugi wa Thiong'o set in post-independence Kenya; its title derives from a line in Derek Walcott’s poem, “The Swamp.” The story centers on four characters whose lives are drastically changed as a result of the rebellion, as they learn how to adapt and survive in a rapidly Westernizing environment.
In 1969, Ngugi told an interviewer that the ideal African novel would "embrace the pre-colonial past, the colonial past, and the post-independence period with a pointer to the future,” and critics see Petals as the encapsulation of such an ideal. Ngugi worked on the novel for five years, finishing it in 1975 at the Soviet Writers Union in Yalta.
At its book launch in 1977, Kenyan Vice President Mwai Kibaki claimed that his presence there meant that Kenya defended free speech, but Ngugi was detained that same year and then later arrested that year after he released his Gikuyu play, I Will Marry When I Want.
Petals of Blood was well-received by critics, especially for its strong political themes that include capitalism, Westernization, neocolonialism, and education.
4. Write a note on the last chapter of novel (Karega and his future towards being a communist).
The police force was truly the maker of modern kenya Karega and his likes should really be deported to Tanzania and China and Munira disturbing him and writer give the important statement property, wealth, status, religion, and education not hold family together.
Joseph the son of Abdulla says in last chapter that he was want to become like Abdulla and fight for political independence of this country and liberation of people. Abdulla thinks that joseph talking like Karega and he thinks,
history was a dance in a huge arena of God.
You played your part, whatever your chosen part, and then you left the arena, swept aside by the waves of a new step, a new movement in the dance. Other dancers, younger, brighter, more inventive came and played with even greater skill, with more complicated footwork, before they too were swept aside by yet a greater tide in the movement they had helped to create, and other dancers were thrown up to carry the dance to even newer heights and possibilities undreamt of by an earlier generation. Let it be... Let it be... His time was over.
Interesting statement of Munira in this chapter
"The Law... Did you obey the Law of the one God?... Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. Then they also will answer, Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to thee? Then will he answer them: Truly I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me. And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.' Family of Munira prayed for him.
Karega received the news that his mother's death their is the description of early beating, electric shock mental harassment all about become Revolutionist and his mother work on Munira's father's farm and he was thinking like her struggle and compare her mother with all kenyan woman, neo colonialism of Africa and men women and children who weighed down by imperialism and after this he was not eat anything for two days.
One visitor came to meet Karega and the visitor was glad to know of the struggle Karega is doing for people. This man is a worker, he said Karega repeated in his heart. His mother had worked all her life breaking the skin of the earth for a propertied few: what difference did it make if they were black or brown? Their capacity to drink the blood and sweat of the many was not diminished by any thoughts of kinship of skin or language or region! Although she insisted on her immediate rights, she never complained much, believing that maybe God would later put everything right. But she had now died without God putting anything right. She had got no more than what she had struggled for and fought for. Could Wanja have been right: eat or you are eaten?
One girl Akinyi came to Karega and said that she was send by workers and they are planning to strike on March in ilmorog they are with karega union of worker, unemployed, small farmer, and even small traders She told him more about the workers' protest and rebellion on the Sunday he was arrested and also about the condition of the workers wounded then. She told him about the death of a very important person in authority. She was talking about Imperialism and very strong thought of her is Imperialism: capitalism: landlords: earthworms. A system that bred hordes of round-bellied jiggers and bedbugs with parasitism and cannibalism as the highest goal in society. This system and its profiteering gods and its ministering angels had hounded his mother to her grave. These parasites would always demand the sacrifice of blood from the working masses. These few who had prostituted the whole land turning it over to foreigners for thorough exploitation, would drink people's blood and say hypocritical prayers of devotion to skin oneness and to nationalism even as skeletons of bones walked to lonely graves. The system and its gods and its angels had to be fought consciously, consistently and resolutely by all the working people! From Koitalel through Kang'ethe to Kimathi it had been the peasants, aided by the workers, small traders and small landowners, who had mapped out the path. Tomorrow it would be the workers and the peasants leading the struggle and seizing power to overturn the system of all its preying bloodthirsty gods and gnomic angels, bringing to an end the reign of the few over the many and the era of drinking blood and feasting on human flesh. Then, only then, would the kingdom of man and woman really begin, joyful and loving in creative labour For a minute Karega was so carried on the waves of this vision and of the possibilities it opened up for all the Kenyan working and peasant masses that he forgot the woman beside him.
'Detain me... I am suspected of being a communist at heart.'
Karega go into past and think about Mukami, Nyakinyua, his mother and he smile thought about his sorrow and said,
"Tomorrow... tomorrow... he murmured to himself.
"Tomorrow...' and he knew he was no longer alone.
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