Summary Of Change A Love Story

At the beginning the semester, we are all required to read a novel named “Change: A Love story” which was written by Ama Ata Aidoo. In general, this book talks about the concepts of love, marriage, and family in Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, it provides us two different values, traditional values and modern values, and shows the conflict between them. In this reflection, I would list and analyze each main character in the novel at first. Then investigating what kinds of culture are shown on themselves and finding the connection between them. Finally combining the information to show the sense of place of gender and culture change in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the primary female character in this novel, Esi Sekyi is a well-educated, and independent …show more content…
Opokuya plays a role who is between the extreme independence that Esi represents and the traditional housewife that indigenous culture expects. Obviously, Opokuya is a well-educated female who also has her own career, which means she is an economic independence woman same with Esi. Meanwhile, Opokuya is more tolerant compare to Esi when both of them face the divergence with their husband. She kept fighting with her husband about controlling their car every day, but she also accepts and adapts the result since she never wins. she has been looking for another way to get her own car, and she succeeded finally. In this way, I would say that Opokuya is a typical female who combine the traditional image of a housewife in Sub-Saharan Africa and modern woman who has been completely independent on family and economy. So, I think the story in “Change: A Love Story” shows a comparison through the two families of Esi and Opokuya, and them as individual. After analyzing each main character in the novel and the culture that they reflected, I am going to talk about the connection between them and how the story shows the change of gender and culture in Sub-Saharan …show more content…
Ali Kondey is the typical person who lives in the first pool whereas Oko Sekyi stands for the people who live in the second pool. Esi Sekyi and Opokuya are the two examples of the tension between these two distinct pools. In my mind, Opokuya just inhabits in the middle space between modern culture and traditional culture whereas Esi is closer to modern culture. Esi is a remarkably independent woman who pays more attentions on her work. She places a higher value on her career rather than playing a role of traditional housewife, which indirectly leads to her divorce with her first husband. At the same time, Esi didn’t disgust with all traditional culture because she could adopt polygyny so that she allows herself to be the second wife of