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    John Lara's The Samaritan: Themes and Elements of Style: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #2
    John Lara's The Samaritan: Answering Excerpt and Essay Questions: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #3
    Reading John Lara's The Samaritan: Plot Analysis and Characters: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #1
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    A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan Series

    By Jorges P. Lopez

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    About this series

    This is another book among the several written on the theme og examinations. Often, students fail to do well in examinations, not because they have not read the text or prepared properly, but because they do not know how to present what they know to a second party. This is often a serious problem in college because nobody prepares the srudents on presentation. Most lecturers expect that the student has learnt this before, which is often not the case. This book is the third in a series which examines John Lara's play, The Samaritan. The first two discuss the elements of literature - plot, theme, characters and style. This book tries to prepare the student on how to present what is learnt in the first two book so that it is clear to the high school teacher or examiner and to the college lecturer. The book, like many others by the same author takes a practical high school exam - the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination, through which students qualify for mid-level colleges and universities - and uses its questions to examine how a candidate should manage both the time and space allowed in order to do what the examiner requires satisfactorily. However, the skills taught here are universally applicable. One only needs to consider the time and marks awarded to questions in the different exams and then adjust accordingly. This book looks at question interpretation for both excerpt and essay questions in literature, and then examines essay writing. Essay writing is taught from the basics - the nature of paragraphing, introductions and conclusions, and finally the complete essay. The book gives the student and the teacher the most practical tools for dealing with examinations in literature. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJorges P. Lopez
    Release dateNov 20, 2023
    John Lara's The Samaritan: Themes and Elements of Style: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #2
    John Lara's The Samaritan: Answering Excerpt and Essay Questions: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #3
    Reading John Lara's The Samaritan: Plot Analysis and Characters: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #1

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      Reading John Lara's The Samaritan: Plot Analysis and Characters: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #1
      Reading John Lara's The Samaritan: Plot Analysis and Characters: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #1

      Reading John Lara's The Samaritan: Plot Analysis and Characters: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #1

      Jorges P. Lopez
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      John Lara's The Samaritan is an interesting play about modern politics in the caribbean and the so called third world. It adds a voice to the general criticism of corrupption and maladministration in these areas. This book aims at helping the reader understand the crafting of this play in terms of conflict and sub-conflicts and how they build the plot as well as the logic behind the characters, whow and what they are, and the role they play. This book introduces new ideas about dealing with the plot of a play. Many critics have simply examined what the authors intend. This book helps the reader do so him/herself by introducing a set of questions which make the ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE apparent to the reader without much struggle. The discussion of these issues which follows later now becomes an engagement between the critic and the reader in a way that the reader may agree or disagree, having discovered these issues himself/herself. This makes the criticism of John Lara's The Samaritan a more engaging experience.

      John Lara's The Samaritan is an interesting play about modern politics in the caribbean and the so called third world. It adds a voice to the general criticism of corrupption and maladministration in these areas. This book aims at helping the reader understand the crafting of this play in terms of conflict and sub-conflicts and how they build the plot as well as the logic behind the characters, whow and what they are, and the role they play. This book introduces new ideas about dealing with the plot of a play. Many critics have simply examined what the authors intend. This book helps the reader do so him/herself by introducing a set of questions which make the ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE apparent to the reader without much struggle. The discussion of these issues which follows later now becomes an engagement between the critic and the reader in a way that the reader may agree or disagree, having discovered these issues himself/herself. This makes the criticism of John Lara's The Samaritan a more engaging experience.

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      John Lara's The Samaritan: Themes and Elements of Style: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #2
      John Lara's The Samaritan: Themes and Elements of Style: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #2

      John Lara's The Samaritan: Themes and Elements of Style: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #2

      Jorges P. Lopez
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      The Caribbean has had its fair share of Literary critics over the last two centuries - but they can never be enough. John Lara is a fiarly modern writer whose play The Samaritan is an appropriate criticism of modern governments in the Caribbean. This book aims at giving a better insight into the concerns of John Lara in this modern play as well as examining the style of the play. It will be found crucial to the reader of caribbean literature and especially the student who attempts to understand the nature of modern Caribbean drama. This book should be read in conjuction with the other two - PLOT AND CHARACTERS and ANSWERING CONTEXT AND ESSAY QUESTIONS. This will enable especially any student of Caribbean literature in general and John Lara in particular to not only understand the nature of this literature and drama but also be able to appropriately respond to questions - context and essay - based on Caribbean literature or particularly on John Lara.

      The Caribbean has had its fair share of Literary critics over the last two centuries - but they can never be enough. John Lara is a fiarly modern writer whose play The Samaritan is an appropriate criticism of modern governments in the Caribbean. This book aims at giving a better insight into the concerns of John Lara in this modern play as well as examining the style of the play. It will be found crucial to the reader of caribbean literature and especially the student who attempts to understand the nature of modern Caribbean drama. This book should be read in conjuction with the other two - PLOT AND CHARACTERS and ANSWERING CONTEXT AND ESSAY QUESTIONS. This will enable especially any student of Caribbean literature in general and John Lara in particular to not only understand the nature of this literature and drama but also be able to appropriately respond to questions - context and essay - based on Caribbean literature or particularly on John Lara.

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      John Lara's The Samaritan: Answering Excerpt and Essay Questions: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #3
      John Lara's The Samaritan: Answering Excerpt and Essay Questions: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #3

      John Lara's The Samaritan: Answering Excerpt and Essay Questions: A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #3

      Jorges P. Lopez
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      This is another book among the several written on the theme og examinations. Often, students fail to do well in examinations, not because they have not read the text or prepared properly, but because they do not know how to present what they know to a second party. This is often a serious problem in college because nobody prepares the srudents on presentation. Most lecturers expect that the student has learnt this before, which is often not the case. This book is the third in a series which examines John Lara's play, The Samaritan. The first two discuss the elements of literature - plot, theme, characters and style. This book tries to prepare the student on how to present what is learnt in the first two book so that it is clear to the high school teacher or examiner and to the college lecturer. The book, like many others by the same author takes a practical high school exam - the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination, through which students qualify for mid-level colleges and universities - and uses its questions to examine how a candidate should manage both the time and space allowed in order to do what the examiner requires satisfactorily. However, the skills taught here are universally applicable. One only needs to consider the time and marks awarded to questions in the different exams and then adjust accordingly. This book looks at question interpretation for both excerpt and essay questions in literature, and then examines essay writing. Essay writing is taught from the basics - the nature of paragraphing, introductions and conclusions, and finally the complete essay. The book gives the student and the teacher the most practical tools for dealing with examinations in literature. 

      This is another book among the several written on the theme og examinations. Often, students fail to do well in examinations, not because they have not read the text or prepared properly, but because they do not know how to present what they know to a second party. This is often a serious problem in college because nobody prepares the srudents on presentation. Most lecturers expect that the student has learnt this before, which is often not the case. This book is the third in a series which examines John Lara's play, The Samaritan. The first two discuss the elements of literature - plot, theme, characters and style. This book tries to prepare the student on how to present what is learnt in the first two book so that it is clear to the high school teacher or examiner and to the college lecturer. The book, like many others by the same author takes a practical high school exam - the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination, through which students qualify for mid-level colleges and universities - and uses its questions to examine how a candidate should manage both the time and space allowed in order to do what the examiner requires satisfactorily. However, the skills taught here are universally applicable. One only needs to consider the time and marks awarded to questions in the different exams and then adjust accordingly. This book looks at question interpretation for both excerpt and essay questions in literature, and then examines essay writing. Essay writing is taught from the basics - the nature of paragraphing, introductions and conclusions, and finally the complete essay. The book gives the student and the teacher the most practical tools for dealing with examinations in literature. 

    Author

    Jorges P. Lopez

    Jorges P. Lopez has been teaching Literature in high schools in Kenya and Communication at The Cooperative University in Nairobi. He has been writing Literary Criticism for more than fifteen years and fiction for just over ten years. He has contributed significantly to the perspective of teaching English as a Second Language in high school and to Communication Skills at the college level. He has developed humorous novellas in the Jimmy Karda Diaries Series for ages 9 to 13 which make it easier for learners of English to learn the language and the St. Maryan Seven Series for ages 13 to 16 which challenge them to improve spoken and written language. His interests in writing also spill into Poetry, Drama and Literary Fiction. He has written literary criticism books on Henrik Ibsen, Margaret Ogola, Bertolt Brecht, John Steinbeck, John Lara, Adipo Sidang' and many others.

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