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Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow Waiyaki rose. He was now really exasperated. What had Nyambura got to do with them?...

      

Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow

Waiyaki rose. He was now really exasperated. What had Nyambura got to do with them? What? Could he not do whatever he wanted with his own life? Or was his life not his own? He would tell them nothing about Nyambura.
"Nyambura has nothing to do with this. If I love her, I love her. If you have nothing else to tell me, I will go."
"Remember the oath!"
"The oath!"
"You took it." "It did not forbid me to love people."
"It forbids you to betray the tribe, to reveal its secrets, or to do anything unclean which might ruin us." He would not discuss Nyambura, a girl who had rejected him. He looked at Kabonyi.Hatred was all that the dimming light from the lantern could reveal. The gleam in Kamau's eyes spoke of silent triumph, and Waiyaki now knew that even Kamau hated him. Yet Waiyaki was more annoyed with himself, for he felt he had not put up a good fight. Maybe he had lost grip with the tribe. Maybe he did not know where he was leading them. As he left them and walked out the word 'traitor', followed him and he wondered if he had actually seen all the consequences of the awareness he had aroused in the hills. But bitterness and frustration mingled and drove him away. He felt angry with everybody, his own father, Nyambura, the elders, and with himself. Kabonyi felt now triumphant as he faced the elders. "Elders of the tribe, I told you. You would not believe me. He has not denied associating with Joshua or the white man. How can he continue to be a teacher? How can we go on following him? Where is he leading us?" "He was always like that," an elder said sadly. "It is the girl. The girl has turned his mind the wrong way."

"As we said earlier," one more elder commented, "all these Christians should be circumcised."
"Yes," a few voices assented, but not all. For some feared that such an action would bring thahu to the land.

a) What has just happened before this excerpt? (2mks)

b) In one sentence, explain the relationship between Waiyaki and Kabonyi. (2mks)
c) From this extract, Kabonyi is brought out as malicious. Cite two incidences elsewhere in the novel where he displays this behavior. (4mks)
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d) "If you have nothing else to tell me, I will go" Rewrite in Reported Speech, (1mrk) ………………………….…………………………………………………….…………………………………
e) Identify and illustrate any two themes brought out in this extract. (4mks) ……………………………………….…………………………………………………….……………………
f) Comment on any two aspects of style. (4mks)
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g) From your knowledge of the entire text, summarize Kabonyi's accusations against Waiyaki in not more than 50 words. (6mks)
ROUGH COPY
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FAIR COPY
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i) Explain the meaning of the following word and phrase as used in the extract. (2mks)
i) Exasperated……………………………………………………………………………...

ii) Lost grip …………………………………………………………………………..………

  

Answers


Lydia
a) Waiyaki had been summoned by the Kiama1 to answer accusations of having betrayed the tribe 1 / they had wanted Waiyaki to respond to them.1
b) They had a frosty or a strained relationship; one full of hatred and suspicion “Waiyaki look at Kabonyi……….reveal hatred.”
c) During the parents meeting at Marioshoni, he opposes Waiyaki’s plan of building latrines for the school out of malice.
-Organizes/instigates the abduction of Nyambura to be used as evidence against Waiyaki.
-Forms the Kiama as a tool to challenge Waiyaki’s leadership and he even ensures that Waiyaki takes an oath which he later uses to argue that Waiyaki had betrayed the bribe.
-He uses Kamau, his son, to spy on waiyaki and uses the reports he receives from his son fight Waiyaki.
d) He (Waiyaki) said/told them that if they had nothing else to tell him he would go(1mk)
e) –colonialism-mention of the presence of white men.
- Betrayal – “it forbids you to betray the tribe………..”1
- Tradition – Waiyaki is seen to have violated certain norms like relating with Nyambura; a Christian and uncircumcised - Love and friendship – Waiyaki is in a romantic love relationship with Nyambura. “if I love her, I love her…..” “it did not forbid me to love…….”
- Christianity – mention Christians
f) -Personification1 – “Kabonyi’s eyes spoke1…………………..”
-dialogue1
– between Kabonyi 1and Waiyaki/ Waiyaki and the elders amongst the elders.
-narration 1
– the extract narrates 1the story of Nyambura’s rejection of Waiyaki and Kabonyi’s hatred as well as Kamau’s.
Rhetoric questions1;
``what had Nyambura got to do with them?1 What? could he not do whatever he wanted with his own life? Or was his life not his own?


g) That Waiyaki had touched the body of dying woman (Muthoni) and was never cleansed.1a
- That he had been seen in Joshua’s church severally.1b
- That he was in league with the white men.1c
- He had secret dealings with Joshua.1d
-He’s in a relationship with Nyambura; Joshua’s daughter and intends to marry her.1e


h) i) Very annoyed/enraged/furious /angered/vexed/infuriated/1
ii) Failed/disappointed.1


lydiajane74 answered the question on November 10, 2017 at 10:47


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