Because government cannot arrest government. So therefore, everything will be okay for the big big people who are chopping the bribe (3). Here in America, government officials and police officers who take bribes would immediately lose their positions, however, in the novel, this is something that the people of Dukana are used to, due to the fact that it is so common. I strongly believe that the “broken English,” that the author of the book made his characters speak can be compared to the broken and messed up society in which Mene and the other townspeople live in. An article written by Chijioke Uwasomba stated,” Given that war itself is a lawless and disorderly exercise, Sozaboy’s language is disordered, dislocated and discordant. The language of the novel reflects the lawless and chaotic environment in which Mene, the Sozaboy and his people find themselves (Uwasomba 19).” Uwasomba was saying in his article how Saro-Wiwa’s usage of pidgin English was to represent how corrupt and chaotic the environment where Mene and his people were. In the novel, the government officials were taking advantage of the people and the war was starting to pick up, which was just making the situation that Mene was in even worse than before. I find that Saro-Wiwa effectively used language in this part of the novel by making sure that we understood how bad things were for Mene and his people. The same way that we struggled to understand the pidgin English and had to put some thought …show more content…
(Uwasomba 019).” Uwasomba was just talking about how important language is when it comes to communication between humans. Without language, fully understanding each other would be really difficult. Saro-Wiwa also said in the book,” Big big grammar. Long long words…But now grammar begin to plenty and people were not happy...We cannot understand plenty what was happening (3). In this section of the book, we see Mene explaining how grammar language is hard for him and his people to understand. He said how people were upset when communication became too complicated for them to understand. I believe that when we forget how to communicate with each other or struggle to understand language, that is when trouble can occur. It is possible that the war the people of Dukana found themselves in could have been avoided if they were able to communicate and fix their problems verbally. This is another great and effective way Saro-Wiwa used language to show how Mene and his people struggles when it came to communication. He helped to show the importance of