Idris Mamman (A0006724)
ENG 101, Dr. Agatha Ukata
FALL 2014.
RESEARCH PAPER ON BUCHI EMETA’S THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD.
The Joys of motherhood, a very heartwarming emotional book with numerous unforeseen twist and turns, the book starts when Nnu Ego, one of the main characters flees home deciding to take her life. The story then throws backs to when she was conceived and circumstances that had led to the situations so far, to the extent of her taking her life. How Nnu ego grew up as her father Agbadi’s favorite daughter, she has a first marriage, but the marriage is unsuccessful because she fails to bear children for her husband. Her second marriage is to Nnaife, a man working as a cleaner in Lagos, he works for some white people named The Meers. She becomes pregnant for him, but unfortunately has a miscarriage; this propels her to the near suicide we witness at the start of the story. She goes back home after being convinced not to commit suicide and gets pregnant for a second …show more content…
Firstly she was a woman who struggled for the well being of her children, even when Nnaife was far away, and times when he was at Sea, and in the army she struggled to make sure that sure that ends met. She insisted on educating her children, and showed a strong female presence through all the problems that life in the city exposed her to. The fact that her husband was always on a wife acquiring spree only mad issues worse, because the little money and resources that were gotten had to be spread over a larger no of people. Still, she showed the strength of a woman and continued to fend for her children. Amarachi Johnson, a popular African Literature critic says in the article Review-The Joys of Motherhood that “Emecheta spares no effort in portraying her as a woman whose sacrificial love and duty towards her seven children see her wallowing in abject poverty, want, misfortune and ridicule from her husband and neighbors”
ENG 101, Dr. Agatha Ukata
FALL 2014.
RESEARCH PAPER ON BUCHI EMETA’S THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD.
The Joys of motherhood, a very heartwarming emotional book with numerous unforeseen twist and turns, the book starts when Nnu Ego, one of the main characters flees home deciding to take her life. The story then throws backs to when she was conceived and circumstances that had led to the situations so far, to the extent of her taking her life. How Nnu ego grew up as her father Agbadi’s favorite daughter, she has a first marriage, but the marriage is unsuccessful because she fails to bear children for her husband. Her second marriage is to Nnaife, a man working as a cleaner in Lagos, he works for some white people named The Meers. She becomes pregnant for him, but unfortunately has a miscarriage; this propels her to the near suicide we witness at the start of the story. She goes back home after being convinced not to commit suicide and gets pregnant for a second …show more content…
Firstly she was a woman who struggled for the well being of her children, even when Nnaife was far away, and times when he was at Sea, and in the army she struggled to make sure that sure that ends met. She insisted on educating her children, and showed a strong female presence through all the problems that life in the city exposed her to. The fact that her husband was always on a wife acquiring spree only mad issues worse, because the little money and resources that were gotten had to be spread over a larger no of people. Still, she showed the strength of a woman and continued to fend for her children. Amarachi Johnson, a popular African Literature critic says in the article Review-The Joys of Motherhood that “Emecheta spares no effort in portraying her as a woman whose sacrificial love and duty towards her seven children see her wallowing in abject poverty, want, misfortune and ridicule from her husband and neighbors”