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The river between chapter 5 summary

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The river between chapter 4 summary

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The river between chapter 3 summary

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The river between chapter 2 summary

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The river between chapter 1 summary

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The River Between
Ngugi wa thiong'o was born James wa Thiong’o Ngugi in Limuru, Kenya on 5 January 1938 during the height of British colonialism.Ngugi wa Thiong’o published his first novel, Weep Not, Child in 1964 and the second, The River Between the following year.Ngugi wa thiong'o wrote a play Ngaahika Ndena (I Will Marry When I Want) which proved too challenging to the authorities and was consequently banned.Ngugi wa thiong'o wrote a book,Devil on the cross on a tissue paper while in prison.

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Reflection of the week
We discussed and summarized the first chapter
We identified perspectives e.g foreshadowing, third person..etc
We also identified and illustrated global issues e.g conflicts
There was a discussion on sdgs. Examples of sdgs in the chapter include: clean water and sanitation, life on land etc

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Today we were guided on how to create portfolios in padlet website.
We were also assigned an assignment for the weekend

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Stylistic devices in the river between
This week,we studied stylistic devices. Some of the stylistic devices include:
1.Hyperbole-an exaggeration to make a point,often in a humorous way.
2.Alliteration-the repetition of first letters(or sounds)in words that came close together in a phrase or sentence, typically consonants.
3. Onomatopoeia- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
4. Parallelism- aligning the arrangemen  of words or sentences in similar ways.
5. Assonance- use of word  that have the same or very similar vowel sounds  near one another etc.
We also read and identified some of the stylistic devices present in the river between novel.Some of the stylistic devices present in the novel include:
1.Foreshadowing-when muthoni's barrel falls and rolls from the hill back to the river.And this happens to be a bad omen after she told her sister she wanted to be circumcised.
2.Allusion-In the book,livingstone head missionary is an allusion to the missionary David livingstone who explored Africa.
3.Personification-there is personification when the story begins with a description of sleeping ridges showing how the people were,not caring about anything outside the land

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Today's lesson reflection
Today,we summarized the chapter in details, discussed:the context and setting of the story,the themes portrayed in the story,character and characterisation and the language used.
In the themes,I found out that the major themes portrayed in chapter one are:(a)individual vs community (b)Tradition (c)unity and division
In character and characterisation,characterisation is portrayed in the writers description of the river,ridges and the trees.This gives the rising character 'Mugo' to dominate his sensibilitie  from scene to scene.