Answers to Fathers of Nations Excerpt 10
Below are the Answers to Fathers of Nations Excerpt 10
EXCERPT 10 Fathers of Nations Excerpts Answers What happened
immediately before this excerpt? (2 Marks) Melusi and Longway
are having lunch and Melusi is explaining how he had vied for the presidency
but lost to the current president. Discuss two
thematic concems evident in the excerpt. (6 marks) (i) Poor
leadership: the leader of Zimbabwe led to the poor economic state of the
country. He also did not care about his citizens when he demolishes slums and
leaves them homeless. (ii) Revenge- the govemment uses Murambatsvina to punish
the urban poor for supporting the opposition parties. Explain one
instance of irony in the excerpt. (2 marks) It is ironical
that murambatsvina's aim in demolishing the slums was said to prevent diseases
and curb crime yet diseases and crime rates increased instead. Apart from irony,
identify and illustrate three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks) (i) Dialogue
- dialogue between Longway and Melusi (ii) Use of local language- Murambatsvina (iii) Metaphor-
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