BEST SAMPLE BLOSSOMSOF THE SAVANAH Q & A.
BLOSSOMS OF THE SAVANNAH SAMPLE ESSAY QUESTION AND ANSWER.
(Form Three Work).
Disagreements in our families can be a source of ugly conflicts. Referring to the relationship between Ole Kaelo and his daughters in Blossoms of the Savannah, write an essay to justify this assertion. (20Marks)
How to properly answer questions based on Blossoms of the Savannah in order to earn full marks.
1. Read the question carefully and think about the key words.
2. Underline the key words to help in effective interpretation of the question.
3. Identify the disagreements in the texts and tie them through sufficient background information, to the ultimate conflicts that ensue as a result.
4. Develop four proper points and tie them to the question to earn full marks.
5. Show what each character selected does to develop the disagreement. What are their desires and how do these desires clash? Indicate clearly the results of the conflicts illustrated.
The introduction can have the following characteristics:
1. Include the key words in the question of synonyms of the same.
2. Show a cohesive interpretation the question at hand.
3. Should be brief and precise.
4. Can be general or specific to the question.
Below is an excellent sample of the expected answers.
Disagreements in our families can be a source of ugly conflicts. Referring to the relationship between Ole Kaelo and his daughters, write an essay to justify this assertion.
Many families live in harmony until the members begin to display divergent interests and views. This is especially common between fathers and their daughters, when the parents feel that they can control what their children desire. This causes rifts and serious conflicts between the two because children also think they have a right to make their own choices based on their tastes, choices and preferences.
Resian has a deep passion for education and wants to pursue a degree in veterinary science. This desire makes her to endlessly persuade Taiyo to convince their father to allow them return to Nakuru and join Egerton University. She proudly says that she wants to read all that pertains to veterinary science and be called Dr. Resian Kaelo. She really wants to be like her role model, Minik. When her father opens a shop at Nasila, she distinctively says that she does not want to work at the shop. Alternatively, she wants to join Egerton University. Even when it comes to marriage, she says that such matters can only be considered in the foreseeable future after she has gone to university. She repeats to Taiyo that that is why it is important for her to convince their father to allow them to go to university. On the other hand, their father desires that they work in the shop, be taught Nasilian culture and be circumcised in readiness for marriage. The daughters are opposed to all these and a serious conflict ensues between father and children. When Ole Kaelo invites Joseph Parmuat to teach the girls song and dance, Resian resists, saying she will either be taught in the university or be taught nothing at all. Later in the text, Resian is called by her father and she wonders if it is Taiyo or Mama Milanoi who talked to him concerning university education. It turns out that neither had. In fact, he was only being good to her in order to make her receptive to his intention to marry her off to David Edward Oloisudori Lonkiyaa. When she resists, he slaps her and insists that he will not send them to university because according to him, they had had enough education. He even reveals that he has taken bride price from her husband to be – a man she utterly detests. The varying desires between father and children lead to a conflict because of miscommunication.
Ole Kaelo denies Taiyo the permission to attend a music extravaganza. This happens after Taiyo’s talent in music is noted by a radio station and trailed since she was young. When the station sponsors a trip to Mombasa, Taiyo asks for permission from her father to attend. Taiyo’s main desire is to travel to Mombasa and develop her talent and passion in music. She had excelled in music on numerous occasions and had been awarded and garlanded. The broadcasting station had encouraged her to take music as a career. When Taiyo broke the news, which she thought would delight her parents, her father was furious. He curtly refused to grant her permission and angrily disallowed any further discussions on the matter, effectively crushing any hopes she may have developed of making music her career. He stated categorically that no daughter of his would so demean herself as to perform in public in exchange for monetary gain. It was one thing to perform in a school festival, he reasoned, but to perform to a public gallery was one short step to harlotry. No amount of persuasion would change her father’s mind. Taiyo however knew without any doubt in her heart that she still loved music. This conflict caused a wound in her heart, too raw to probe. The rage was still seething in her. Her trust in her father was badly shaken. She recalled with bitterness how the refusal nearly damaged the father-daughter relationship. This serious emotional conflict between Ole Kaelo and his daughter is brought as a result of varying desires and point of view that escalate into misunderstandings. In the long run, the original trust and total commitment they had is shaken all because the two fail to have mutual understanding.
When Mama Milanoi becomes expectant for the second time, Ole Kaelo expected a baby boy. However, she gives birth to a girl – Resian. From the day she was born, her father detested her. Even at the crib young Resian noticed that she was unwelcome and detested. She therefore grew up sullen and bewildered and resentful as a result of lack of love from Kaelo. Her nature was darkened by melancholy. She received frequent tongue lashing from her father. Taiyo often wondered why their father was often harsh to Resian and often mopped her tears. She consoled her. In return, the moment Resian saw Ole Kaelo, her fingers began to tremble and she became clumsy. The glasses she was holding fell to the ground and broke into pieces. He wondered where in the world they had fetched that awkward, overblown and stupid child. When he found her resting, he tells Mama Milanoi to look at the daughter of hers that lazed about like an overfed lizard, was good for nothing and whose behavior bordered on imbecility. Resian knew that her father despised her since she was young and wondered what he disliked about her. Her father kept on rebuking her unendingly and ridiculed her constantly. The conflict between the two continues until he eventually betrays and sells her to Oloisudori. This was all because he had failed to get a baby boy.
A major conflict arises between Ole Kaelo and Resian when he desires to marry her off to his business associate Edward, despite the glaring warning from Olesupeyo, to keep that fellow from his daughters due to his reputation that rivaled a randy he-goat. Resian’s resolute desire is contrasted with that of her father when it comes to matters marriage. Ole Kaelo explains to her that it is the cardinal joy of a parent to see their children settle in their homes. It emerges that her father had made up his mind that whatever happened, Resian had to be married by Oloisudori. He reasoned that he was not going to allow her daughter’s ignorance to destroy her future. Ole Kaelo declared that he had a God-given duty to guide her to a secure future and lead her to the honeypot that would be her future. The two men had planned for her to be abducted if she refused. Ironically, Ole Kaelo was on top of the world as a feeling of achievement and satisfaction encompassed him. He compared her to a goat’s kid that stubbornly refused to suckle after it was born. Its owner would tuck it between his knees and forcefully open its mouth and tuck its mother’s teat into it. He would then squeeze out the milk into the kid’s mouth. The taste of the milk would make it suckle and removal of the teat from its mouth would be a struggle. With this allegory, Ole Kaelo’s desire for his daughter is evident. He hoped that when Resian saw what Oloisudori had laid out for her pleasures, she would rebuke herself for her procrastination in the first place. Resian totally disagreed with her father and said that he would rather kill her, she would not marry Oloisudori. This disagreement made her father slap her and she ran off to the river, ready to commit suicide.
In conclusion, many families disintegrate because of conflicts and misunderstandings. This leads to tears, fears and jeers instead of joy; all because of stubbornly sticking to opinions without giving room for kin’s input.
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