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SECTION A: You must answer ONE question.
Question 1
Walter: (mumbling) We one group of men tied to a race of women with small minds
(Hansberry, p 19).
Often women are represented as inferior to men in many ways in A Raising in the Sun.
Using the above quotation as a point of departure, write an essay in which you discuss
the extent to which Hansberry portrays women as the disempowered gender in A Raisin
in the Sun. Ensure that you support your argument by using examples from the text.
(50 marks)
OR
Question 2
To what extent would you agree with the view that Welcome to Our Hillbrow questions
the habits of cultural stereotyping of other Africans in postcolonial South Africa. In your
answer, focus on the depiction of female characters, and foreigners as presented in the
text. Ensure that you support your argument by using examples from the text.
(50 marks)
SECTION B: You must answer ONE question.
Question 3
Write an essay in which you discuss the characters of Nhamo and Chido, and the effects
of customary privilege and colonial conditioning on their actions and attitudes as
presented in Nervous Conditions. Ensure that you support your argument by using
examples from the text. (50 marks)
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Question 4
“Slave Dealer”
The slave dealer in the poem is haunted by his deeds and the role he played in the slave
trade. Discuss the ways in which the poet reveals the slave dealer’s torment and turmoil
and indicate whether the religion of Christianity is depicted in the poem as supportive of
slavery. Ensure that you support your argument by using examples from the poem.
The Slave Dealer (Thomas Pringle)
From ocean's wave a Wanderer came,
With visage tanned and dun:
His Mother, when he told his name,
Scarce knew her long-lost son;
So altered was his face and frame 5
By the ill course he had run.
There was hot fever in his blood,
And dark thoughts in his brain;
And oh! to turn his heart to good
That Mother strove in vain, 10
For fierce and fearful was his mood,
Racked by remorse and pain.
And if, at times, a gleam more mild
Would o'er his features stray,
When knelt the Widow near her Child, 15
And he tried with her to pray,
It lasted not for visions wild
Still scared good thoughts away.
"There's blood upon my hands!" he said,
"Which water cannot wash; 20
It was not shed where warriors bled
It dropped from the gory lash,
As I whirled it o'er and o'er my head,
And with each stroke left a gash.
"With every stroke I left a gash, 25
While Negro blood sprang high;
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