· “The Setting Sun and the Rolling World”
Go
over “Pre-Reading” (162) – always helpful to read the intro of a text
Examine
title- suggests time passing, days passing, change
-sun
setting symbolic “shadows creeping east” (162)
Contrast between what they say to each other
and their internal thoughts- father/ son (163-4)
internal conflict
Father regards son as not
fully grown
youngest son
Father is experienced “he
himself had taken chances before, in his own time”
FATHER "There is no
only way out in the world. Except the way of the land, the way of the
family."
SON "The land is
overworked and gives nothing, father. And the family is almost broken
up"" (163)
shows how different Musoni
and Nhamo's viewpoints are
“Words are handles... sinews of life.” (164) –important lines
“Release
me from all obligations...” (164)
the son has a duty to take care of/ provide for
his aging parents and family
maybe also set to inherit the farm
father’s
speech to son- raw, brutal “A homeless...” (164)
Son
is “Going over the same ground...” (165)
son
rejects beliefs of father- e.g. charms
READ
PASSAGE “He was free... He was the sun... when he felt buoyant” (165-6)
Contrast
with the opening image of the sun going down
Fire
is a metaphor
READ
LAST PARAGRAPH
Talk
about point of view in the story- essential to exposition of each character’s
OMNISCIENT
THIRD PERSON –deep insight into each, although are not privy to our knowledge-
dramatic irony
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