The Silhoutted Harrassments
Cód:
491_9781425772604
CONTENT: Some of the harassments emanated from the childs adventurous feats. Every child sought adventure within the environment surrounding her in the course of growing up. It was during these adventures that the girl-child found herself in the middle of some form of harassments. Other harassments were designed and condoned by the society in which the girl-child was born and bred. Parents and society at large had some influence and part to play in the mishandling of the girl-child. Today their participation as such would be viewed as criminal harassment. Society then viewed women, from childhood to adulthood, as subjects of men. Women were at the disposal of men and men could use them in the manner they wished, irrespective of gaping infringement of human dignity. The girl-child had very few human rights, as it were, in the eyes of the society. They were, to say the least, properties of parents who sold them for bride-price and, thereafter, properties of men who acquired them after paying the said price. Peer influences and acquaintanceships also molded the girl-childs life. Girls emulated those with whom they associated most of the time during their growing up. Schoolmates and, later, workmates had great influence in a growing girl. It was only an outstanding hardcore of a girl who would then wriggle out of the influence and shape her life out of the ordinary. Such a girl would have been termed a rebel in her own right. It is such a girl that is portrayed in the book. The author in the book tries to transverse in all avenues open to a girl-child growing during the period. That is the story in itself. The life described through the created female character was the actual life witnessed by the author in his youth. The author lived around the environment and situations described in the story. The mixture of local languages is an emphasis of what would be otherwise difficult to portray in English, which is not the authors first language. The l
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