A Grain of Wheat
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A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat
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This book was ok.
It was on Kenyan Independence and the Five days leading up to Independence. In a small village called Thabai, these five days are heartbreaking and destructive.
This book was very confusing for three reasons 1) It had a lot of characters with names I'm not used to. I'm used to names like Sally and Bob but these were names like Mugo and Mumbi. This made it difficult to identify characters with actions.2) The time was messed up. I was not sure when we were. This is a book that is supposed to be about five days but tries to cover the whole suffering of a nation. It kept jumping around moving from one end to another. In a sentence, a man could be born, achieve greatness and die, which just made it hard to follow. 3)There were a lot of characters and it followed all of them. A long section would be dedicated to a certain character and their past and then you would jump to the present and follow a different character.
It does a great job of explaining the injustice and suffering that people faced during the struggle for freedom and that your closest friend might be the one to stab you in the back. The plot is filled with minor and major plot twists and subplots. Betrayal is a heavy theme in the struggle for independence and oppression also has clear markings in the story.
It was on Kenyan Independence and the Five days leading up to Independence. In a small village called Thabai, these five days are heartbreaking and destructive.
This book was very confusing for three reasons 1) It had a lot of characters with names I'm not used to. I'm used to names like Sally and Bob but these were names like Mugo and Mumbi. This made it difficult to identify characters with actions.2) The time was messed up. I was not sure when we were. This is a book that is supposed to be about five days but tries to cover the whole suffering of a nation. It kept jumping around moving from one end to another. In a sentence, a man could be born, achieve greatness and die, which just made it hard to follow. 3)There were a lot of characters and it followed all of them. A long section would be dedicated to a certain character and their past and then you would jump to the present and follow a different character.
It does a great job of explaining the injustice and suffering that people faced during the struggle for freedom and that your closest friend might be the one to stab you in the back. The plot is filled with minor and major plot twists and subplots. Betrayal is a heavy theme in the struggle for independence and oppression also has clear markings in the story.
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