Waec 15/16 May/June 100% Litrature in English (drama & poetry) Obj, Theory Question & Answer

(3) The play revolves mostly around Aloho, a naïve and jobless university undergraduate who is desperately searching for a job. She meets Ochuole, a notorious old school mate of hers who is the Chief Administrative Officer at the Ministry of External Relations. Ochuole offers to help her secure a job by speaking with the Honourable Minister of External Relations, Chief Ade Haladu-Amaka on her behalf. Aloho is offered a job as one of Chief Ade Haladu-Amaka’s protocol officers. However, she does not know that Ochuole is actually being used by the Chief to perpetrate criminal activities especially drug trafficking. Madam Hoha’s hotel is the hideout for these criminal activities. Chief Ade Haladu-Amaka gives Aloho a package containing hard drugs to deliver in the United States of America. Aloho unknowingly accepts the package and gets arrested at the airport by drug law enforcement officers. Chief Ade Haladu-Amaka bribes the judge and the prosecutors to set Aloho free. Upon Aloho’s release from detention, she discovers she is pregnant for Chief Ade Haladu-Amaka. She makes futile attempts to abort the pregnancy and eventually dies while giving birth to the child. Meanwhile, a honest police officer, ACP Yakubu initiates investigations into allegations of embezzlement of the sum of One point two billion naira embezzled by Chief Ade Haladu Amaka. Ayo, a clerk in the office of Chief provides necessary documents to the police to unravel the crime after receiving a bribe. Ogeyi, Aloho’s friend seeks justice by reporting Chief to the police. Justice prevails in the end as all the corrupt characters are punished and made to pay for the crimes committed. ==================================== (8) Mrs Hardecastle is regarded as the matriach of the Hardecastle family in the play. she is the mother of tony who coddles her son, loves and overprotects him. she fails to tell her son that he is of age and eligible to 1500 pounds a year. she yearns to simple life in high society unlike her husband. according to the play, Mrs Hardcastle values material possessions and hopes to match her son(tony) with her niece(Constance Neville) in order to keep her niece’s is indeed very corrupt abd character provides some of the needed items for comedy in the play. from the play, it is seem that Mrs Hardcastle is partly selfish. she wants Neville to marry her son to keep the jewels in the family. she is certainly unaware of the fact that despise each other and that Neville is already in love with hastings and that ========================================= (9) In the poem,there is a conflict of cultures between the ancient native life and European imperialism.the cultures symbolically represented by piano and drums respectively.African culture is depicted as simple and natural. Though,it is characterized by mysteries which are understandable. It is unlike the European culture identified with modernity,sophisticated but complicated. African culture is portrayed as attractive for its innocence and simplicity.on the other hand, with phrases like”waiting”,”solo-speaking” and “tear-furrowed”. the impression is given that European culture has several shortcomings.However,we are told that it is “coaxing”as the music from the piano moves in different tonal directions,which suggest some form of attraction.for the poet,it is a culture difficult to understand. ==================================== (11) The poet’s attitude to nature in “birches is that of childhood refuge and problem-free medium. the poem is intensely philosophical in tone, nature and mood as it compares childhood, the period of innocence with childhood,the period of experience. while a child seems to enjoy a sheltered life, free from travails and complexities of the modern world, the adult is deeply enmeshed in the complications that are integral to modernity. The birch, as a tree, is a symbol of nature which represent an idyllic, utopian world, free and immune from the world’s problems. thus, like the romantic poets, frost seems to recommend nature as a means of achieving psychic wholeness after exposure to the myriad of problems that human beings face everyday. hence, nature is idolized a s a means of engaging in the quest for eternal fulfilment represented by heaven. First also stresses the idea that the art and act of redeeming the soul is personal and has to be done alone in an atmosphere of severity and peace.