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'Education is key in transforming individuals in a society.' Drawing illustrations from No Violet Bulawayo's Hitting Budapest, justify this statement.

      


'Education is key in transforming individuals in a society.' Drawing illustrations from No Violet
Bulawayo's Hitting Budapest, justify this statement.

  

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Introduction

Education can make us see things differently. It opens our mind and clears away the ignorance, The narrator in the story Hitting Budapest by No Violet Bulawayo begins to see things differently when she goes to school.

Illustrations
Education is key to transforming individuals in the society. The children live in Paradise, a shanty, and as they take a

walk to Budapest, they seem to have gone to another country. In Paradise the people are idle and do not do much. 'The women plait hair and talk. the men play draught and they do not seem to notice the children. It is no wonder
Chipo is molested by her grandfather. The children believe Chipo's grandfather put a baby in her stomach and that is why he was arrested and detained. They believe the first baby is supposed to be a boy although Chipo is the firstborn and a girl. This shows they have little knowledge of the things they go through.

The children meet Mello in Budapest, she is holding a camera and what she is eating is Strange to them. She tells them she is from London and she has come to visit her father's country. They are shocked that her skin does not have a scar to show she is a living person. It is clear the children want a better life. Basta wants to stop stealing guavas and move to bigger things in the house when he grows up. She wants to live in a big house because a rich man will marry her take her away from Paradise and to a better place like Heaven and Fambeki. All these thoughts are evidence that the children lack education. However, they think differently when they go to the juvenile correction center.

In school, Mr. Gono tells the children they need education to make money. The children wonder how then they can make money if they are not going to school.

The narrator writes a letter to Mello to apologize for their deeds to the people of Budapest as she has learnt to read and write at the juvenile correction center. Chipo wants to continue with her studies and become a counsellor, and guide and help the children of Paradise. The narrator wants to go to America but after she knows what she will do there now that she is educated.

Conclusion

Indeed, education transforms the community. The narrator writes a letter apologizing for the mischief she and her friends do. The narrator wants to go abroad but not for the sake of simply going there.

marto answered the question on August 27, 2019 at 07:53

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