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Chapter 2. As the man enters the railway building to start his day’s work, he notices that the night clerk has fallen asleep on the job. After the clerk wakes up, he reports that there was not ...
Overview. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, published in 1968, is a debut novel by Ayi Kwei Armah, one of the most noteworthy writers of postcolonial Ghana. Armah was born in Takoradi, Ghana, in 1939. He was educated at schools in Ghana and private institutions in America, including Harvard University. He has also worked as a translator ...
Chapter 7. Teacher gets dressed, and the man wonders how Teacher can see the corruption of the world so clearly and still find a way to live in it. He considers whether the decay and rot are ...
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is a 1968 novel by Ayi Kwei Armah about a man who navigates the morally compromised world of postcolonial Ghana. The protagonist, known simply as “the man ...
Chapter 1 Summary. The book begins with a bus driver counting his daily collections and remembering the wealthy passenger who gave him a rare cedi—a paper bill—as his fare. The bus driver thinks about the happiness in the cedi-giver’s expression when he handed over the bill. The driver gives the wealthy passenger a confusing assortment of ...
August “Auggie” Pullman feels like an ordinary ten-year-old child, but his appearance is anything but. His parents think he’s extraordinary, and his older sister, Olivia, or “Via,” tries to protect him from judgmental people. Auggie has been homeschooled by his mother because of his twenty-seven surgeries.
Summary: Chapter 2. Elizabeth and Victor grow up together as best friends. Victor’s friendship with Henry Clerval, a schoolmate and only child, flourishes as well, and he spends his childhood happily surrounded by this close domestic circle. As a teenager, Victor becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the natural world.
