Question

Compare and contrast the narrative styles in A Grain of Wheat and Dance of Forests.​

Answer 1

Answer:

A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o is a polyphonic novel that analyzes a group of villagers following the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. The timing places the village between the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and Kenya’s independence from Britain. Much like the historical context, the narration is central to the core meaning in the story. The omniscient narrator interweaves the histories, actions, and thoughts of Mugo, Gikonyo, Karanja, Mumbi, and other characters by employing third person throughout. Frequently, the narrator slips into free indirect discourse or “a manner of presenting the thoughts or utterances of a fictional character as if from that character’s point of view by combining grammatical

Answer 2

A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o , a Kenyan novel written in English, is a language historically related to colonialism and injustice in African countries. Although the novel is written in English, Ngugi still speaks the novel theme of revolution with proverbal and folk songs in his native Gikuyu. Dance of Forest by Wole Soyinka offers a complex interplay between gods, humans and dead people, in which the ideal purpose is a discovery of oneself in the sense of the spirit of Western Africa.

Explanation:

• Grain of Wheat by Ng in the Wa Thiong'o edition is a polyphonic novel exploring a villagers ' group after the emergency in Kenya in 1952-1960. The time places the village between Kenya's independence from Britain and the Mau Mau uprising. Like the historical context, the narrative is central to the main importance of the story.

• The omniscient narrator interwove stories, actions and thoughts by using a third person throughout Gikonyo, Mugo, Mumbi, Karanja, and other characters.

• The narrator often slips into a free indirect discourse or "a manner of presenting the utterances or thoughts of a fictional character as if, from the point of view of that character, grammatical and other subject-direct speech features with the indirect narrator text" (The Oxford English Dictionary).

• Open, indirect dialogue allows the reader to gain an insight into the characters ' background and their happiness. In fact, the time is through with the novel advances and the omniscient narrator transforms into a participatory person. There are also occasions when the novel progresses.

• The reader even gets a glimpse of Kenya's coming independence challenges. The variance in the use of third person, free indirect expression, and first person in A Grain of Wheat shows the relation between past and present helps us to determine the joy of the characters and predicts Kenya's future. As a result of the variations in narrative, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o effectively intertwines history into the story.
• In Dance of forest, is a metaphorical commentary of the socio-political situation in Nigeria, given the fact that it takes place over one day, the play does not follow exactly a linear structure. As we know very easily, the story concerns the sins of the past and every human individual has a multitude of personalities, including who they are now and who they used to be in the past.
• The present is based on the past as if to say that nothing in our history is ever finished, we come down from trends and incidents that precede us. The story of the play deals with ways people have to conquer and benefit from their pasts.
• The structure of a play is an important ingredient in the determination of the artistic vision of a playwright. In his opinion, "Utopia and dystopia are very much in the sense of the same project, because both depict another universe, spatially and/or temporarily, separated from that of the author and/or intended readership."(Qtd, in Richard Phillips, 190). Therefore it is a function of utopian and dystopian imagination to remotely imagine places
• African Negro Aesthetics through Yoruba traditional artworks such as sculptor, painting, masquerade are used as narrative techniques in A Dance of the Forests

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