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When the sun goes down-The Retraction
Introduction
Many people suffer in life due to their unthoughtful actions. This comes about because drunkenness, Lack of morality or just sheer carelessness. In the story, ‘The Retraction, the narrator Zgambo Chumachamara suffers due to his careless utterances
i) One suffers guilt
- On reading Tatha’s email informing him she has lost her job due to the coments he wrote about her to her employer, the narrator is filled with guilt.
- He feels deeply touched, tears from in his eyes, he wipes the tears and sits staring at the computer for a long time.
- His heart, he says, accompanies Tatha wherever she was in her suffering.
- He regrets why he made such a negative comment about her, a careless comment made by hand that was drunk pg 143.
- He spends a sleepless night teling himself he has to retract his comment because Tatha is innocent. Pg 143
ii) One suffers financial constraint
- He has to sell his belonging at a throw away price.
- Zgambo goes to Lundazi town to sell his Rolex worst watch that he bought at one hundred and twenty thousand Kwacha pg 143 walks to many people at the same prize but no body is interested in it.
- Later when he is tired and hungry and thirsty, an Asran offers to buy it at eight thousand. That is forty thousand less.
- He has also sell most of the things he had bought in Johannesburg since he has to raise more money, more than his miserable salary can afford.
iii)One sufders hostility/rejection
- The receptionit to the chief executive is so indifferent towards the narrator. When Zgambo calls for her attention, she states hard at him.
- The narrator asks to be given just a few minutes to see the chief executive instead of being referred to try at two since he had travelled all the way from Zambia.
- The receptionist gives him the look of you-could-as-well-have-travelled-from-mars-but-that-wont-change-anything pg 145
- At Tatha’s house, he is received with hostility. It is raining heavily but tatha does not let him in to the house much as he complains to her that he is freezing . Sje reprimands him and locks the door in his face pg 149.
Conclusion,
Indeed, man people suffer in life due to their unthoughtful actions as exemplified by Zgambo chumarachamara’s sufferings.
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