EXCERPT 8 Fathers of Nations Excerpts
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)
"And young they'll still be the day I die,"Mr Walomu added. "Karanja, you know the saying: 'A real bull dies with green grass in its mouth."
Then why do you want to steal my wife? She is old. Not the green grass you want in your mouth.'
"l just told you why: Old is gold. Anyway, 'stealing' - to use your word - is not all that uncommon, you know. My Texas guy says thirty percent of the British 'steal' married spouses from their partners. Repeat: thirty percent! That is a lot of spouse stealers there, wouldn't you say?"
Professor Kimani refused to bite the man's bait. Still, the man continued. "Now take the Americans. Contrary to what everyone thinks, Karanja, Americans are not great spouse stealers at all. They check in at a mere seventeen percent, way behind the British. In fact, to cut a long story short, only the Greeks are greater spouse stealers than the British. Boy, do the Greeks know this spouse stealing business! They come in at a whole forty percent."
The man was now toying with Professor Kimani.
Unable to tolerate it anymore, Professor Kimani moved to end it. "You, you, you greedy fat baboon!" he shouted, closing in.
The man stood up. "Stop where you are, Karanja!" he said.
Professor Kimani kept coming. When he was near enough, he swung a fist. He missed. "First you steal my wife," he said. He swung another. He missed again. "Now you mock me as well. "He swung yet another. This time, he lost his balance and fell.
Mr Walomu pounced at once. "Now you die, Karanja!" he said.
A clumsy scuffle, as between bull elephants, followed. It ended only when the police came and arrested the two angry men.
Professor Kimani was charged with assaulting a Member of Parliament. His university followed suit by demoting him from his current rank as full professor back to his starting rank as senior lecturer. This, it said, was his 'due punishment for disgracing the university in the eye of the Public. Six months of jail followed. Then he was set free. As he walked back to his house, dejectedly Putting foot ahead of foot, his career was all he could see. And it was
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a) What happened immediately before this excerpt. (2 marks)
b) "And young they will be the day I die," who was walomu referring to? (2 marks)
c) Discuss two themes evident in this excerpt. (4 marks)
d) Identify and illustrate three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks)
e) Explain how each of the following character has been brought out in this excerpt. (4 marks)
(i) Newborn
(ii) Karanja
f) Rewrite the following sentence in reported speech. (1 mark)
"Stop where you are, Karanja!" he said.
g) What happens immediately after this excerpt. (2 marks)
h) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt.
(i) Tolerate
(ii) Scuffle
(iii) Pounced
(iv) Doomed