"A Grain of Wheat"

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her my blog part of activity. Given by my Ma'am Heenaba Zala This blog sumitted to Department of  English Maharaja KruashnKumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

A Grain of Wheat:-

• In A Grain of Wheat, Britain's colonization of kenya is the context against which it's character are formed as well as the primary political tension of the book. Ngugi wa thiongo , himself a native kenyanK uses this context and development of his characters to explore the moral aspect of the British and rural Kenyans.

• Ngugis narrative argues that, although both the colonizer and the colonized feel morally justified in their pursuits, colonialism is ultimately an immoral and oppressive practice, justifying the colonized people's struggle for freedom even through violent means. The British colonialists and the Kenyan freedom fighters want fundamentally opposing futures for Kenya.

• The British in the expansion of their empire, seek to modernize Kenya with technology and administration. However in doing this they force themselves upon ancient ethic groups like the Gikuyu and steal their land from them for their own purposes. The May May fighters, with the support of most of their village, Thabai, seek to push "the Whitenan" completely out of Kenya so they can preserve their way of life.

• Rather than the modern future envisioned by the colonizers, the Gikuyu hope to maintain their independence and right to self govern, as well as their ancestral traditions. Both colonizer and the colonized see themselves as the righteous , heroic figure working for the good of humanity, and their enemies as evil.

• This is exemplified in the story by the mirrored characters John Thompson and Kihika. John Thompson the English regional governor, is an evangelist of British Colonialism believing it to be a moralizing and purifying force of human progress.

• Furthermore, for the last three generations the British Colonialisalists have subjected Kihika's people to forced labor and made them pay exorbitant taxes, often with the threat of detention, rape, or murder. From an early age, Kihika's knows his life's calling is to lead the moral fight against the British. Both kihikaKihand John as the brutal overseer of the detention camps and the colonial soldiers in his region.

• This uneven depiction argues that in the conflict between colonizers and colonized , the kenyans and their quest for freedom morally outweighs the British mission to "moralize" what they see as a lesser country. If violence is the only way for the Gikuyu to fight British oppression, A Grain of Wheat implies, so be it. 

• The novel ends on the day of Kenya's independence from Britain, thus resolving the conflict between colonizer and colonized. Even so, since the author observes that Britain remains imperialistic, the moral argument against such colonization by any country remains firm.

Robinson Crusoe in character study of Friday.

• Friday is the first person Crusoe introduces into the social order  of the island. His name of Course is not Friday by birth but this is the name that Crusoe gives him after saving him from the hands of cannibals. Encourages him to eat goat and aids in his conversasion to Christianity.

• The first and most obvious point about Friday relationship with Crusoe is that Friday is Crusoe subordinate. Friday always calls Crusoe master . Like colonialism point of view see this two people. Crusoe is a colonial upon Friday. So Friday following only Crusoe rules.

So, in Grain of Wheat and Robinson Crusoe in see colonizad by people upon another people.

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