Literature-In-English Paper 3 WASSCE (PC), 2018

Question 2

     

    DELE CHARLEY: The Blood of a Stranger

     

    Consider the view that tradition triumphs in the play.


Observation

 

A good number of candidates answered this question. Many of them gave mere narrations and wrote generally on traditions in the text; they could not link it to how it triumphs in the play.

The required answers should include:

* The people’s adherence to custom or tradition.

* The three stalwarts of the people’s culture or tradition and their differences/rivalry.

* The effect of the conflict among the three characters: Kindo, Soko and Maligu.

* Whitehead’s mission and its failure.

* The triumph of custom or traditions in the killings in the shrine and Kindo’s banishment.

 

Candidates’ performance was fair.