Wonders of Wanda

Welcome to Wonders of Wanda, We analyze and provide detailed information on all literature materials KCSE candidates need. In-depth analyses of set texts and poems are our main priority. Also, information on the history of different African communities is available on this blog.  Our Mission Our mission is a very simple one: To provide much-needed analyses of literary texts to learners who find it difficult to understand the novels, short stories, plays, poems and oral literature as taught in class.  What we Offer : Analyses of: Fathers of Nations All stories in A Silent Song and other Stories The samaritan A Parliament of Owls Artist of the Floating World 

Plot Summary Ivory Bangles is the story of a woman who loses her life after an attack by an angry bull elephant. The story unfolds with a flashback that recounts how the woman's husband, who is the chief's councillor, had visited a seer after seeing speckles of blood on the liver of a goat he had slaughtered. The seer had consulted his pebbles, and they said that someone, a wife, would die because the spirits were jealous of a happy wife who had never been molested by her husband since marriage until she became a grandmother. The only way to run away from this fate is by giving her a ritual beating. The wife claims that this is a trick by the seer since he had wanted to marry her and even promised to put a spell on her. So, she hatches a plan to trick the spirits and make them believe that her husband has beaten her. She was supposed to go to her late parents' homestead, weeping while complaining that her husband had beaten her without any reason. She would then refuse to g...

 Plot  A Silent Song is a short story by Leonard Kibera. It adopts a unique narration style that uses flashbacks to highlight the suffering of a paralyzed blind boy of about 14 years. The flashbacks help bring out his thoughts about his plight as a street beggar and later as a boy incarcerated in his brother's hut. The title, A Silent Song, is in fact, an oxymoron that refers to his silent reflections on his life and the future he would like to have.  Through the flashbacks, readers clearly see how he loathes his new home, whose floor is said to be flea-ridden p.17. His thoughts show that he prefers being out in the streets to being left lonely in his brother's hut. He 'speaks so well of city life and even wonders why prostitutes, drunkards and pimps are considered bad people yet he sees them as good men and women who are trying to relax after working so hard during the day. As for prostitutes, he asserts that they are good women whose work starts at night when the rest o...