A common problem with many students of Literature is not the ability to read or understand a Literature text; it is the inability to present to their examiners what they have analyzed in that text. This is often because students and teachers focus too much on understanding the text and forget the part of expressing yourself to other people about what you have read. For this reason, this book tries to help the student of Brecht - both at high school and in college - on how to write answers ...

Although this is generally a storybook for children, JIMMY AND THE DODGER, like ALL its counterparts in the JIMMY DIARIES SERIES also go out to do a number of things. First, they have been made humorous enough to pull kids away from the TV. Second, they attempt to teach morals to children by examining a number of issues affecting children from parenting to bullying and the like to teach kids one or two home truths about growing up. Third, they are written with the ENGILS CLASS READER needs...

Kazuo Ishiguro is an award winning British writer of Japanese descent. he has written many novels and won several awards. An Artist of the Floating World, published in 1986 was short listed for the Booker Prize and was rated one of the best 100 books ever written. It examines the nature of memory and denial and the interplay between the two in determining people's characters. Plot and Chacters here examines the storyline from a literary point of view as well as the characters and their rol...

The study of the Afican novel is often challenging to both the teacher and the student in high schools and colleges. This is because, apart from many modern African novels being multi-faceted, many teachers and students still use the traditional methods of analysis. Often, such methods leave the reader with a lot of knowledge about the particular text, but with few literary skills that can be used on other literary texts or even other genres. This guide book approaches this subject a littl...

St Maryan Seven and the Shanghaier is an adventure novella. Seven girls are invited to a party where their drinks get spiked. Then they find themselves in a strange ship manned by pirates - some of who seem out dreamy history. They are eventually rescued after a harrowing adventure.

JIMMY AND THE ROGUE GOLIATH is the eighth novella in the running series JIMMY DIARIES SERIES, In this episode, Jimmy is enchanted by the huge ram that his grandfather keeps penned behind the kitchen. One day he decides to do a little discovery for himself. By the end of the day, he will be wishing he had left the ram undisturbed.

St Maryan Seven and the Flying Saucer is another novella in the running St Maryan Seven Series. In this episode, the Magnificent Seven girls go on adventure but one of them is kidnapped and taken to the island of Pemba. They follow her there to rescue her and end up fighting against a coven of witches.

Jimmy is one unlucky boy who often gets caught unawares in compromising situations. But he believes himself always innocent and blames others for his calamities. From his best friend Chiggah to his Grandfather to other boys in school. But we always love Jimmy as he goes about his adventures for he entertains us thoroughly. This time round, Jimmy's love for the avocado fruit puts him in deep trouble, first with the area chief in whose farm he is caught, and then with his teachers who are al...

Our perception of people when we are young may be quite interesting whether it is how we view family members or neighbours. But again a kid may have mixed feelings - and therefore mixed reactions - to people which we may not necessarily understand. Unless, of course, we see things from his point of view. JIMMY and his ANCESTOR is a humorous narrative about a young boy forced to grapple with the reality of who his grandfather is when he is forced to visit him and live with him during the sc...

On 21st September 2013, four masked gunmen attacked the WESTGATE MALL in Nairobi's Westlands area. Westlands is an upmarket suburb of Kenya's capital,. Nairobi. What followed was several days of total horror in which as many as 70 people were killed. The attack was generally blamed on Muslim extremism and it was neither the first, nor the last.ST MARYAN SEVEN AND THE WESTGATE RESCUE is a fictional enactment of this horror story. It fictionally examines what the victims might have g...

This book examines the PLOT of the play and the CHARACTERS in Jhenrik Ibsen's famous play A DOLL'S HOUSE. This allows the critic of the play to have a comprehensive view of what the play is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what underlies the CONFLICT of the play. This should prepare any student of henrik ibsen in general or of this play in particular, to answer any questions about the writer and his work, his world view and his general philosophy towards life as expressed ...

Africa has had a myriad of problems mostly caused by foreigners - from slavery to modern interference in governance through copu d' etats to intereference in government admistrations. For years, African writers have added their voices to the criticism of this. Paul B Vitta adds to these voices in his modern novel Fathers of Nations. This book, Plot Analysis and characters atempts to make the reader of this novel understand the conflicts(s) in the novel by seeing how the novel is crafted an...