Last but not least, near the end of book 2 the author revealed to the audience the feeling of a Black Kaffir and how he feel about knowledge and the world around him, he testifies “Please, sir, my mind cries for knowledge. I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of a stream. I am naked without knowledge. I am nothing without learning. Please, sir, give me this knowledge, give me this learning, so that I too can be a man”(447). The author makes sure the audience experience the intensity of the room by using words like “cries” and “naked”, these words show vulnerability and that one does not simply use these words to describe elementary situations. Also, he uses multiple periods to allow the reader to take in every sentence and understand its true meaning. In this novel, Courtenay does an amazing job using word choices to illustrate the emotion and atmosphere of the African community and the hate among
Last but not least, near the end of book 2 the author revealed to the audience the feeling of a Black Kaffir and how he feel about knowledge and the world around him, he testifies “Please, sir, my mind cries for knowledge. I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of a stream. I am naked without knowledge. I am nothing without learning. Please, sir, give me this knowledge, give me this learning, so that I too can be a man”(447). The author makes sure the audience experience the intensity of the room by using words like “cries” and “naked”, these words show vulnerability and that one does not simply use these words to describe elementary situations. Also, he uses multiple periods to allow the reader to take in every sentence and understand its true meaning. In this novel, Courtenay does an amazing job using word choices to illustrate the emotion and atmosphere of the African community and the hate among