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Homeless by Ovo Adagha
A short Story
Content
-Theme
-Characters
-Symbols/images
Analysis
-Narrative perspective
-Setting
-Message/moral or practical lesson
Theme/Setting
-strong sun = summer
-poor, couldn't effort new uniforms or enough food
-no shoes, only for special days or for Sundays
-Father died
Theme/Setting
-kids laugh because of their shack
-mother nursed a small kiosk into life
->only source of livelihood
-the bulldozers destroyed houses (also from them)
-ghetto neighborhood turned into a tragic exhibition ground of twisted wreck-age
Characters
protagonist :-Nne (13 years old)
major characters :-Nne, Ebuka, mother
minor characters :-father
-> an indirect characterization
Characters
relationships :-Nne and Ebuka siblings
-> Nne like a junior mother to Ebuka (p.38,l.19)
-mother is raising children alone but Nne is helping her
-Nne and her father had a close kinship and affinity (p.38,l.22)
Nne
-honest (l.5, speech)
-knows habit (l.23,thought)
-responsible (l.35,actions)
Nne
-thoughtful (p.38,l.6,action+thoughts)
-responsible,mature (p.38,l.18)
-honest (p.39,l.3)
-attentive (p.39,l.13;p.40,l.9;p.41,l.7)
-appearance:clumped,dirty clothes,barefeet
Ebuka
-careless (p.37,l.39)
-easygoing (p.37,ll.37-38;p.38,l.1)
Ebuka
-ignorant (p.38,ll.23-24;p.40,ll.4-5)
-childish
Mother
-emotional (p.37,l.8-9)
-ambitious,didn't lose hope (p.39,ll.41-43)
-courageous,save things (p.40)
-appearance: clumped,dirty clothes, barefeet
Mother
-life circumstances: poor
(p.37,ll.39-42)
(p.38,ll.31-34)
Symbols
-strong bond (p.37,l.2)
-responsibility (p.37,l.30)
-setting (p.38,ll.35-45)
->poverty
Symbols
-lost their home setting (p.40,ll.29-end)
-hope, freedom (p.40,l.31)
Narrative perspective
-the first-person narrator
->It is told from Nne's point of view
(p.37,l.1) (p.37,l.28) (p.38,l.14)
Narrative perspective
-she only tells her Information and what she thinks and feels
(p.38,l.22) (p.38,l.27)
Message
-should always be thankful for everything
-to be satisfied with what we have, others have nothing
Message
-should value and respect everything
-should be nice and respectful to everyone, no matter what he/she has
-help each other