This Ngugi Wa Thiong’o story highlights the human cost of progress in developing countries such as post-independence Kenya. Its main themes are exploitation, class differences, identity, loneliness and appearances. A young woman leaves her village in search of a better life in the city. She is poorly educated, and ends up working as a hostess in beer bars. Unhappy with the life, the money she makes and her appearance, she dreams of something better. Cut off from her family and alone in the world, she steals money from a customer and uses it to experience a few minutes of glory.
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It good and I like it
when I read this story I felt it was something going on around me. it felt like an experience being recored. I felt I was Beatrice
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A very wonderful story so impressive and so interesting
Love it more more so moral lessons gotten
Interesting