Reflections In A Ring Of Light
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Right from the Prologue where we are introduced to the ‘Ring of the Light’ Nana shows us that he is about to take us on a journey into epiphany. And he is unrelentless. In essay after essay, story after story, line after line, precept after precept, Nana takes us from one moment of sudden revelation into another moment of unexpected insight. We meet his grandpa, Maapa, who demanded excellence even in the most mundane of activities – sweeping the compound. But Nana’s admiration of this man is buried in imagery and a simile. Maapa inspected work like “inspected it like a jeweler inspected a diamond.” Attention to detail. Clearly rubbed off Nana. Thus whether his epiphanic trip takes us to Besease or Lexington through Leipzig, he shows great attention to detail. We meet his Dad from who made death look and seem welcome to Nana. Dignity in death, a lesson learned from Dad’s life. So Nana walks away from the morgue where Dad’s body was, convinced in one breath that Dad’s deep faith had helped him deal with death. Yet with the very next intake of air, Nana concludes that “there’s nothing like eternal life.” “We must all die! Accept it!” he screams. We also meet Mum, to whom he wrote long letters and each of which she still keeps. It was Mum who told him the story in the essay “Do It Well” about the builder who had built several houses for a rich man. But having been hired and paid to build another house with the best material he could find, he chose, being actuated by malice, bitterness and ill-will, to use the cheapest of materials, to lay a feeble foundation with weak walls, and to install a roof that shook and windows that clattered when the wind blew. “It was his worst work.” To his shock, the rich man decided to reward him with that building. “I should have built this well!” The stories that only mums can construct! In “The
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