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Wanjala Chris (Ed): Memories We Lost and other stories. Write an essay on how the narrator deals with her father's death in OkwiriOduor'sMy Father's Head'

      

Wanjala Chris (Ed): Memories We Lost and other stories.

Write an essay on how the narrator deals with her father's death in OkwiriOduor's My Father's Head'

  

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Martin

Introduction

When the narrator in the story My Father's Head loses her father, she cannot seem to remember what his head looked like. The narrator was young when her father died and she is not sure how to react. She draws his picture but realizes that she cannot remember what his head looks like.

Illustrations

The narrator has lost her father and has to cope with the loss. She draws a picture of him but she does not seem to remember his head. Bwibo, the cook, thinks the narrator's picture is abnormal and she asks how she knows it is her father. She recognizes him by his clothes. She believes her father had a face but no head. She argues that people looked at people's faces and not heads.
Before the cane tractor had killed her father, the narrator had imagined her father's death, how he would die, how she would mourn and how people would comfort her. Bwibo, the cook, tells the narrator that her father was a good man and that good men only faces not their heads.

She helps Bwibo clean the dormitory of the old people and a man at the home tells them how he had come to the home. narrator sees her father's head, which had the shape of a butternut squash. She remembers the things he used to do like the day he bought a great wall television after getting a gold chain from some excrement, in a reverie, the narrator is visited by her father and they share a cup of tea. He asks about a friend who has been dead for four years and he leaves,

Conclusion

The narrator can finally rest when her father appears to her long after he is dead and she offers
tea. She can finally seem to remember the Iman that he was.

marto answered the question on August 27, 2019 at 09:43

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