Green Stones
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How childhood experiences make the protagonist evolve in Doreen Baingana 's short story “Green Stones”.
The short story subject to study is “Green Stones”written by Doreen Baingana, an Ugandan writer. “Green Stones” relates the story of a whole Ugandan family seen through the eyes of the youngest member of the family, Christine. Baingana portrays through the protagonist how perspectives change as people evolve and grow up.
“Green Stones” is related in first person, and as said before, the narrator is the main character, Christine. It is detectable by the language Christine uses that she tells her childhood experiences being an adult, and because she narrates the story in the past. She uses an elaborated language full of detailed descriptions which help the readers to get involved with the story. The narrator skips parts of her childhood and relates the period which was most shocking for her as a child ,and made her evolve. As well, she tells facts of her recent life and a conversation with her mother as the story 's dénoument.
As has already been stated the protagonist, Christine, goes through a great deal of experiences during the story, which make her evolve and change her vision about the relationship between her parents, and life in general. When analysing the plot readers find that there are mainly two turning points which cause those changes in Christine. The first crisis that Christine experienced is the argument her parents had in their bedroom. Before that dispute Christine described women just as “nice, pleasant and sweet”, the protagonist also said that once she grow up she would wait at home for her husband: “ I wouldn 't go to work, like Mama did; instead I 'd spend the whole day prepearing my body, and wait patiently for my husband the president.” Contrarily, after witnessing the quarrel Christine describes her mother as a woman “alive with anger and frustration. Not only her descriptions changed, but also the role plays
How childhood experiences make the protagonist evolve in Doreen Baingana 's short story “Green Stones”.
The short story subject to study is “Green Stones”written by Doreen Baingana, an Ugandan writer. “Green Stones” relates the story of a whole Ugandan family seen through the eyes of the youngest member of the family, Christine. Baingana portrays through the protagonist how perspectives change as people evolve and grow up.
“Green Stones” is related in first person, and as said before, the narrator is the main character, Christine. It is detectable by the language Christine uses that she tells her childhood experiences being an adult, and because she narrates the story in the past. She uses an elaborated language full of detailed descriptions which help the readers to get involved with the story. The narrator skips parts of her childhood and relates the period which was most shocking for her as a child ,and made her evolve. As well, she tells facts of her recent life and a conversation with her mother as the story 's dénoument.
As has already been stated the protagonist, Christine, goes through a great deal of experiences during the story, which make her evolve and change her vision about the relationship between her parents, and life in general. When analysing the plot readers find that there are mainly two turning points which cause those changes in Christine. The first crisis that Christine experienced is the argument her parents had in their bedroom. Before that dispute Christine described women just as “nice, pleasant and sweet”, the protagonist also said that once she grow up she would wait at home for her husband: “ I wouldn 't go to work, like Mama did; instead I 'd spend the whole day prepearing my body, and wait patiently for my husband the president.” Contrarily, after witnessing the quarrel Christine describes her mother as a woman “alive with anger and frustration. Not only her descriptions changed, but also the role plays