The Curtains Open

How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, Lord my God.

Villagers are seen leaving their matchstick houses, carrying tools and wooden buckets among them. The wives of woodcutters would often meet and converse about their children and

make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am

my privity, He gain admittance to my hearth, I pray. The curse I laid on

Seventh ... Let whomsoever can, throw brimstone and pitch upon them, so much the better ... and if this be not enough, let them be driven like mad dogs from the land (Burston, 2014).

bite my thumb at you sir, but I do bite my thumb.” Biting his thumb at

On the horizon one of the villagers had spotted an odd shape that appeared to be human but didn’t look human. Curious but cautious about this strange shape the villager ran to Chea Sequas’ house.

enjoy the blessed fruits of your rashness; for by all that is sacred , neither

“' [I will] curse you with a mighty curse, my curse shall afflict you now and forthwith!” … 'Because [ you made] me [weak, who was undefiled!] '” (George 6.104-105,

To mutilate myself would not allow me into the heavens, an understood nice place. I would imagine (“People say- they believe! – you had a god’s help when you restored life to our city” pg. 668 line 46), I am seeing a test (“People say- they believe! - you had a god’s help when you help when you restored life to our city” pg. 668 line 46) which I hear GOD allows you to go through. I would seek out evidence as to if this has ever happened before (“But why are your surging at me like this- with your wool – strung boughs- while the city is swollen with howls of pain, recking incest, and prayers sung to the Healing God!) or if I had notice or ever been warn through dream or hearsay.

On 08/18/2015, at approximately 1440 hours, your affiant was dispatched to the rear of 330 West Chester Street for a disturbance. I arrived on scene and spoke with the caller. The caller (Rozew) stated several individuals were at the rear of the house in the alley. She said they are screaming, fighting, and two of them are swinging pipes at each other. She reported several individuals running into the wooded area and then back toward the garage.

But you will never hear such a thing. The only thing you will See is my deadly stare with no

upon your hands! They are stained with the blood of your relations! You and I were long

In Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ Mr. Kapasi , the main character, seems to be a person with mixed feelings. He does not seem to have fixed stand neither in his job nor on his thoughts. His thoughts and experience are structured by the strict cultural society of India. His hidden wants and desires suppressed by the community rules are looking for way to come out. The consequence is his changing thoughts and desires which at different parts of the story appear differently and brings

Secondly, the Christians unite the converts, but this unity does not prevent the new converts from demeaning others because of their religion or beliefs. When Mr. Kiaga, the missionaries’ interpreter, persuades the converts to accept the osu, or those who are cast out of the clan, Achebe writes, “‘Before God,’ he [Mr. Kiaga] said, ‘there is no slave or free. We are all children of God and we must receive these our brothers’”(136). The people are guided by Mr. Kiaga’s words as he teaches that they are all children of God and are, therefore, equal. One might think that converts would subsequently show the other religion in Umuofia an equal amount of respect as before, but they do not. While the church is still new to the village and does not perish in Evil Forest, Achebe says, “Three converts had gone into the village and