JAMB 2013 UTME USE OF ENGLISH: THE SUMMARY OF THE TWO NOVELS; “The successors” written by Jerry Agada AND “The potter’s wheel” by Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike.
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THE SUCCESSORS By Jerry Agada
The
book explores the significant shift that occurs in inheritance as a
means of showing the challenges that patterns succession – displaying
how at the end, one has to choose a path that either leads to success or
failure.
The beauty, ugliness, morality or otherwise of the path is not the ultimate message in this book.
‘The
Successors’ is the story of who comes next and how they got there – in
this case, >the fictional life history of Okoh Ameh and Terkura Atsen
and the succession by David and Ifenne. And what did they learn – that
Industry and hard work pays. www.naijaeducationupdates.blogspot.com
So,as I mentioned earlier, the story is
mainly of these two young men Okoh Ameh and Terkura Atsen who met in a
hotel as junior workers. Terkura is very ambitious and dreams of one day
owning a hotel as big as the one he is working in. Okoh on the other
hand is the opposite – very unassuming.
All Okoh wants is to do well
at his job, get promoted, marry a nice and obedient girl with whom
he’ll forever live happily. All these he did but because of his limited
ambition, he feels inadequate as he observes that his mates, Terkura
inclusive, had done very well for themselves. Inferiority complex thus
drives him into drinking and womanizing. So much so that he neglects his
family. As a consequence of his neglect, his eldest son joins a gang,
begins to skip school and took to smoking marijuana. This drives Okoh
further into despair.
Terkura on the other hand goes on to finish
university and is lucky to meet a benevolent who helps further fuel his
ambition. He becomes very rich and influential. Although, he never got
married nor had children to bequeath his wealth. Ifenne, son of Okoh
continues in the difficult and destructive path his father had chatted
for him. He struggles at every turn to make ends meet. He becomes a bus
conduct and in a twist of faith, manages to own a bus of his own.
Terkura,
transfers his wealth to his nephew David.And the young man overwhelmed
by the magnitude of his disposable wealth embarks on a frivolous life
style that sees him flying all over the world, attending and holding the
most ostentatious and lavish parties. www.naijaeducationupdates.blogspot.com
In an ultimate twist and the
author’s design, Ifenne and David join up and put together a grand plot
beyond everyone’s expectation.
*That’s the end and all about the book *THE SUCCESSORS*
2nd Novel: The Potter’s Wheel By Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike (summary).
>The
story sets during the second World War and the only means of modern
entertainment was the The Mobile Cinema Van. The book is very rich in
proverbs and a lot of wise words “The Potter’s Wheel”
>Tells of
Obuechina Maduabuchi (mouthful), the only brother of six older sisters,
prize pupil in the village school, apple of his doting mother (Mama
Obu)’s eye,eight years old and hopelessly spoilt.
In a vain attempt
to salvage his character, his father (Papa Mazi Lazarus Maduabuchi)
decides he must be sent away as a servant to a schoolmaster with a
dragon of a wife. Obu goes and he comes back very different. www.naijaeducationupdates.blogspot.com
Points
to note in the potter’s wheel; *The story is all about 0buechina*, Maxi
is the father of Obu and he has seven children*, Obu is the 6th child
and he is the only son* of the family, his best friend is *oti*, while
the eldest of the three friends is *samuel* who is referred to as the
*bully and trickster*.
Obu lived with his family in the village of
*Umuchukwu*. Obu came first in the school exam while he was 5 years old.
*ogechukwu(obu’s immediate sister)* is three years older than obu, but
ogechukwu failed. obu ‘wished’ he didn’t want to go to school at the age
of 5, but his parents refused. (Mazi, Obu’s father was a cloth dealer*
and he was a dancer when he was young.
obu’s father also had a
bicycle but the first person to have ridden a bicycle in *Umuachukwu
town* was *Chief Okeke Okafor* Obu was given a *red flute* to
congratulate him on his success, when obuechina was asked to name
anything he wanted and he asked for a *goat*, Mazi his father said they
had one for christmas already. Obu said he wanted to learn how to ride a
bicycle and it was granted unto him, although, he never got to learn
it. www.naijaeducationupdates.blogspot.com
Obu’s mother over pampered him which led him to bed wetting and
obu was meant to die at his 9th birthday, as a result of a mark and a
stone called *ogbanje stone* which was buried and which represent the
life of obu. then Obu wanted *david* to teach him how to ride a bicycle
but by that time when he went to david’s house, david was sick, so he
went to his friend, oti* who had followed his brothers to the river for
fishing.
obu was over pampered and his father was not pleased with
his mother so his father sent him to a village called *Aka*, in Mr Kanu
Zaccheus’ (a schoolmaster)* place, the man was known to be wicked
himself, same as his wife(frequently called ‘Missus’). on getting there,
obu was maltreated by the schoolmaster’s wife. later, obu was
registered in a school named central school* where he met an osu girl
called Margaret, Osu means outcast, so Obu was classified as impure as a
result of the interaction between him and margret. Monday* was the
eldest of the houseboys, he was 19yrs old, after a long while, Obu began
to play tricks on the teacher as a result of the way he was treated by
the teacher’s wife, he wrote fake letters to the teacher that his Dad
needed him at home but the teacher refused them, until his dad sent Madu
(mazi’s friend)* to visit Aka town to check how his son, obuechina was
doing. on getting there, he slept over and came back the next day with
obuechina whom his mother always calls”Onyigbo”. www.naijaeducationupdates.blogspot.com
His mother was so
happy that she left what she was doing and welcomed Obuechina, then Obu
has totally changed as a result of the lesson he learnt in Aka town.
The End.
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>WORDS FROM THE POTTER’S WHEEL.
“It
is because you have not trained him very well that I’m talking about
sending him away before he dissolves completely like a bag of salt” ”
The dog does not eat the bone chained round its neck” ”John whose face
knows no laughter” “Vultures will eat your meat as they ate Jezebel’s if
you continue answering me without putting Ma” “When the cricket knows
the crime is has committed, it dabs white wash round its eyes.
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>KEY POINTS TO WATCH OUT FOR.
1. The writer’s Intention.
2. The title you would have given the passage.
3. The writer’s mood.
4. The writer’s point of view.
5. What figure of speech it is.
6. What is conveyed in the statement.
7. How a word is used in the passage.
8. Never add your own meanings to any of the passages probably because you know the subject,
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