Parallelism Of Anansi

In the text entitled Anansi and his visitor, Turtle, the author denounces Anansi’s cunningness by using an ironic tone. Indeed throughout the text, the author uses sarcasm and parallelism to talk about cunningness. For instance Turtle said to Anansi “thank you for your wonderful hospitality” (619).The combination of the words wonderful and hospitality highlights Anansi’s inhospitality. This oxymoron expresses Turtle’s disappointment about Anansi’s inhospitality which provoked selfishness and cunningness. Besides, the author uses a parallelism to show how Anansi suffered from his tricks. As an illustration, Turtle said to Anansi “I must remind you that in my country it is ill-mannered to come to the table wearing a jacket” (619). Therefore, Turtle used a pretext like Anansi’s to avenge on him. This proves that Turtle beat Anansi in his own game
In fact, the author uses the jackal as a character because it is a cunning animal in matter of tricks. For example, Camel told jackal “no sooner had you finished your own dinner than you must go yelping about the place to arouse the whole village” (596).From that, Jackal betrayed Camel’s trust despite promising him sugarcane. Therefore, Jackal used this pretext to exploit Camel. Jackal is thus a wolf in sheep’s clothing as he promised to his friend to show him sugarcane if he carries him but in fact he put him into trouble.Furthemore, Jackal, after having yelled, replied to Camel “it is a custom I have. I always like to sing a little after dinner” (596). Jackal is teasing instead of asking for forgiveness. This shows that he does not care about Camel’s sorrow and does not regret his egoism. In a nutshell, Tit for Tat proves that even friends can be deceitful and thus everybody does not deserves to be trusted because some people befriend others in order to take