A meeting in the dark – Caught between cultures
Mr. Wong
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Zusammenfassung des Kapitels "A meeting in the dark" aus Caught between cultures
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1974
Setting
- Time: 1970ies
- Place: Kenia, Limuru, Makeno Village
- Point of view: experienced speech, internal monologue, 3rd person, indirect narrator
Characters
- John
- Son of Stanley, clever, hard working, should go to college (Makarere Uganda), has a special status in the village, has an affair with Wamuhu
- Stanley
- Father of John, frail but energetic, priest, religious tone, treats his son like a sinner, not very polite, feared by everything, columnist, prayer
- Wamuhu
- pretty and attractive, not very well educated, pregnant, thinks that John loves her, and wants to marry her
- Stanleys mum
- knows all of Stanleys sins because of John, tall and lank, connected with her tradition
- other natives
- respect John because of his education and success, expect from John to be moralic and respectfull, John is their idol, fear Stanley
Plot
- Exposition
- Dialogue between John and his father and dialogue between Susana and Stanley about the education of John
- Conflict / rising action
- Description of Johns life and explanation of the problem and the affair with Wamuhu
- Climax
- Johns dream and his rising hopelessnes
- Resolution
- John kills Wamuhu, but he is out of his mind
Themes
- Standing between two worlds
- alienation of the culture and tradition
- father-son conflict
- force of religion