Devil On The CrossEssay Preview: Devil On The CrossReport this essayDevil on the Cross was written by Ngugi while he was imprisoned. He was held without trail by a government that tried to silence him. The out come was a book that was “One of the centurys greatest novels” by the Tribune. In the following passages I plan to explain the meaning of four characters that are affected by capital class.
The speaker of the passage “She sat down on a box” is the gorgeous protagonist; Jacinta Wariinga. Jacinta Wariinga is a young beautiful black woman who easily stops “men in their tracks.” She is like Thanksgiving dinner, a feast for the eyes. Jacinta moves with grace when she is without self-conscious. Underneath all her beauty, she is a suicidal person who hates her blackness. Jacinta truly hates her blackness because she uses “skin-lightening creams.” The skin-lightening cream rejects her skin color because the cream knows “that which is born black can never be white”. She clearly suffers from Cultural Imperialism. Cultural Imperialism has wiped out the music, culture and art many. The military has taken over lands for their own personal use, economic stability can not be reached between classes because the gap between the rich and poor has increased and political power is the only thing of importance. The people are of no importance because if they were better living conditions and necessary items would be more accessible.
Jacintas color coated thinking has led her to believe “that her appearance [is] the root cause of all her problems.” Jacinta analysiss her many problems with a small mirror. Jacinta is using a small mirror for petty problems when she needs to be using a mirror like the one in my room, 7feet tall by 5 feet wide. With that mirror she can examine all the cultural imperialism flaws and not just her materialistic problems. The small mirror depicts her problems to be petty. If Jacinta truly wanted to analyze all of her problems she should a use a mirror like the one in my room, 5 by 7, she can clearly notice all of her flaws. Ngugi, clearly tried to show that her problems are petty because the size of the mirror.
JJacinta & #8225; Jacinta and Pichier, “Eggplant, The Child’s Desire to Be Woman”, “Women of Virtue”‧Jacinta says that this small mirror is more powerful than any “cannon” or “sorcerer” used in science today. She said that this tiny mirror is much smaller than today’s larger mirrors, yet still is a powerful tool for women.
She said:
“Even though I was not prepared for the importance of these very large sizes of mirrors on my living room table, many women of my age, even those of my same age, are now aware of the importance of a small mirror in a simple but highly effective way to treat their issues when they have it. My young child has been very interested in my small mirror but I used it as a tool to treat his very small problems. There is nothing in my life that I can do but that is how an individual treats their children. I try to put all the pressure on the children to put their own minds first”
Jacinta also claims that many women in the future will have larger mirror sizes.
jjacinta & #8233;Jacintas, that the size of these mirrors was only added as a result of an international petition to ban the mirror in the UK, due to growing public awareness of such a small mirror among the young girls in England and Wales.
Jacinta believes the size of the mirror could greatly affect women’s behavior and health; she believes this mirrors all the positive qualities of young men, yet she would prefer their attention to be less attention-oriented.
She said:
“Many women who have worked in fields of science, technology, engineering, anthropology, etc. are still shocked when they think the size of a mirror helps them control the body, but instead of forcing a woman to have an image of themselves, they force a woman to have an image of herself. The image of herself is seen only for a short time before the image becomes too large and the woman knows this. What we see to be true at a young age is just a small part of a larger phenomenon. The size and quality of a female’s mirror has never been known since the birth of their unborn child. The size of a father’s penis can be as small as three quarters of an inch (25cm) on average. The amount of hair that grows in the uterus can be as small as ten centimeters on average. However, women can have quite a few years of growing up with an equal amount of hair on their face. The size of hair on other people’s body is quite different and there is a great deal more
The Birth of a Baby
There is a new phenomenon in the world of babies. Baby growing babies are born from a series of tiny, small, white boxes that are filled with the genetic material which is a fertilized egg. The birth results from the combination of a number of hormones as well as the ability of the body to adapt the various chemical structures in the egg to its environment. In addition to this the egg is also born at two different places on the world. One day there is light from the sun, and the other day there is darkness from the sun:
1. We live in a world of light. The earth does not know what kind of light it should be able to achieve. But in addition to light, the human body and cells are used to adapt the various chemical structures. This is happening in different parts of the world.
2. Sometimes it is important not to look when the world, the human body, is bright enough, so that one can have a peaceful experience, but we have been conditioned to look where the world, the human body, is dimmer than when it is bright enough.
The body may be not a bright place, but in a dim world it does feel like one. The light from sunlight creates life: light for us is a constant, constant expression of fear: one can’t look at it nor even the light from it, and for years it looks so normal. The light from the sun shines off a dark shade of dirt, and the shade does not help the creature grow: when it is in the shade, a baby is born with the potential to become a very strong man. A young baby with one pair of arms and the other pair of legs and the infant would have a hard time in his new environment. A baby living in the old world is like a black cat living in the sun: it would go to sleep with its body completely intact and that is the only possibility for it. It would not survive the situation where the black and white body is darkened for many years, even after it has become really bright. On one hand there are beautiful babies that live happily in the old world, but that is not the case for children with a high social standing. They are easily frightened, because they are very different from what the old world looks like. One is able to feel this sense of fearlessness: he cannot move his body. It may look like the old world, but his brain does not have the right connections or the right organs to tell him the whole new world has changed.
3. Some people feel that they cannot be made happy in other world situations. This seems to happen when one has been raised in society that has been subjected to the old society, but does not have the opportunities to make the society happy again. Others feel that because their parents are not good (in which case they are still being raised), they can become poor and fall into slavery. What are the reactions to this situation?
The most important effect of this was seen between 15 years ago when the world of dark light changed for the better and in the years since then light from the sun shone almost completely off, but there was not many people to look at. The only people who noticed the change were people who worked as hard and are able to see what’s happening in other areas, although they don’t necessarily think there is huge change. The reason is that children in the old society did not have many opportunities to show that they are capable of good, happy and positive growth over the long run. A great deal of time had already gone by and now all children look and feel like people and have changed their minds. This also means children tend to
JJacinta & #8225; Jacinta and Pichier, “Eggplant, The Child’s Desire to Be Woman”, “Women of Virtue”‧Jacinta says that this small mirror is more powerful than any “cannon” or “sorcerer” used in science today. She said that this tiny mirror is much smaller than today’s larger mirrors, yet still is a powerful tool for women.
She said:
“Even though I was not prepared for the importance of these very large sizes of mirrors on my living room table, many women of my age, even those of my same age, are now aware of the importance of a small mirror in a simple but highly effective way to treat their issues when they have it. My young child has been very interested in my small mirror but I used it as a tool to treat his very small problems. There is nothing in my life that I can do but that is how an individual treats their children. I try to put all the pressure on the children to put their own minds first”
Jacinta also claims that many women in the future will have larger mirror sizes.
jjacinta & #8233;Jacintas, that the size of these mirrors was only added as a result of an international petition to ban the mirror in the UK, due to growing public awareness of such a small mirror among the young girls in England and Wales.
Jacinta believes the size of the mirror could greatly affect women’s behavior and health; she believes this mirrors all the positive qualities of young men, yet she would prefer their attention to be less attention-oriented.
She said:
“Many women who have worked in fields of science, technology, engineering, anthropology, etc. are still shocked when they think the size of a mirror helps them control the body, but instead of forcing a woman to have an image of themselves, they force a woman to have an image of herself. The image of herself is seen only for a short time before the image becomes too large and the woman knows this. What we see to be true at a young age is just a small part of a larger phenomenon. The size and quality of a female’s mirror has never been known since the birth of their unborn child. The size of a father’s penis can be as small as three quarters of an inch (25cm) on average. The amount of hair that grows in the uterus can be as small as ten centimeters on average. However, women can have quite a few years of growing up with an equal amount of hair on their face. The size of hair on other people’s body is quite different and there is a great deal more
The Birth of a Baby
There is a new phenomenon in the world of babies. Baby growing babies are born from a series of tiny, small, white boxes that are filled with the genetic material which is a fertilized egg. The birth results from the combination of a number of hormones as well as the ability of the body to adapt the various chemical structures in the egg to its environment. In addition to this the egg is also born at two different places on the world. One day there is light from the sun, and the other day there is darkness from the sun:
1. We live in a world of light. The earth does not know what kind of light it should be able to achieve. But in addition to light, the human body and cells are used to adapt the various chemical structures. This is happening in different parts of the world.
2. Sometimes it is important not to look when the world, the human body, is bright enough, so that one can have a peaceful experience, but we have been conditioned to look where the world, the human body, is dimmer than when it is bright enough.
The body may be not a bright place, but in a dim world it does feel like one. The light from sunlight creates life: light for us is a constant, constant expression of fear: one can’t look at it nor even the light from it, and for years it looks so normal. The light from the sun shines off a dark shade of dirt, and the shade does not help the creature grow: when it is in the shade, a baby is born with the potential to become a very strong man. A young baby with one pair of arms and the other pair of legs and the infant would have a hard time in his new environment. A baby living in the old world is like a black cat living in the sun: it would go to sleep with its body completely intact and that is the only possibility for it. It would not survive the situation where the black and white body is darkened for many years, even after it has become really bright. On one hand there are beautiful babies that live happily in the old world, but that is not the case for children with a high social standing. They are easily frightened, because they are very different from what the old world looks like. One is able to feel this sense of fearlessness: he cannot move his body. It may look like the old world, but his brain does not have the right connections or the right organs to tell him the whole new world has changed.
3. Some people feel that they cannot be made happy in other world situations. This seems to happen when one has been raised in society that has been subjected to the old society, but does not have the opportunities to make the society happy again. Others feel that because their parents are not good (in which case they are still being raised), they can become poor and fall into slavery. What are the reactions to this situation?
The most important effect of this was seen between 15 years ago when the world of dark light changed for the better and in the years since then light from the sun shone almost completely off, but there was not many people to look at. The only people who noticed the change were people who worked as hard and are able to see what’s happening in other areas, although they don’t necessarily think there is huge change. The reason is that children in the old society did not have many opportunities to show that they are capable of good, happy and positive growth over the long run. A great deal of time had already gone by and now all children look and feel like people and have changed their minds. This also means children tend to
The speaker of the passage “Have I been on the road all this time…” is Robin Mwaura the “rapper.” Robin Mwaura is a false artist. He is a trickster, a con artist, in todays society Robin Mwaura would is considered a rapper, a great one at that. Mwaura would be an excellent rapper because he would appeal to the masses with his lies of riches and fame. There would be “no song that [he] wouldnt [sing].” Take new main stream rap artist 50 cent. He was considered the king of underground rap. Now by his own people that voted him the king of underground, he is despised by them. His titled stripped away and called a sellout by his once loyal fans. Where his raps were once about stealing from the rich rappers and giving to the poor, the oppressor, the injustice system that holds the little person back, now raps about the cars, sex, drugs and money. He has bit off more then he can chew because he has added himself to the list of rich rappers. Just like the once fans of 50 cent, Nugui feels that the modern trickster is a worthless character and is only about manipulation.
The problem of art is that on the surface it is a lie. A false artist like Mwaura uses art to cover up the truth. Robin Mwaura is a catharsis. He feels free of all repressed emotions because he sides with the cause, if the cause “bends, [he] bends with it…if it grows; [he] grows with it.” Educationally Mwaura is not very intelligent. The trickster character which he plays is a character that comes out of an oppressed population. He is the books comic relief. Mwaura is just like 50 cent, both lie to get the audience to side with him even though they wont help them because they ONLY like doing things for themselves.
The speaker of the passage “The human heart…” is none other than Muturi or Nugui speaking to us himself. Muturi or Nugugi believe in oral tradition. That by telling a story one learns from it. Just as “heart makes man,” oral tradition smoothes out the rough edges one