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EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR BOOKS
By
DAVID KYALO MUTISO
A semester assignment
2011
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(I) A DISCUSSION OF THE EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR ADULT FICTION
1.0 EVALUATION CRITERA OF PETALS OF BLOOD BY NGUGI WA THIONGO
This novel the petals of blood is eavluated on the basis of the following
criteria; theme, plot, style, point of view, setting and characterisation.
2.0 INTRODUCTION
Petals of blood falls in the class of high quality literature of fiction genre.
Mr Ngugi wa Thiongo is a creative author, his novels have original views
divicting Kenyas history from colonial times and after indipendence. They
have a good public appeal and are always celebrated here at home.
His works usually atract wide readership whenever they are published. Some
have been quite controversial with the past regimes. They have been a satireof past misdeeds of previous governments. Mr Ngugi has been in prison in
the past because of his creative works. The aesthetic appeal of his works
have gone beyond the Kenyan borders. He is now one of the most
celebrated African authors today.
2.1 THEME
The theme of this novel, Petals of blood is on the injustice done by former
Kenya government to its people. Although written in 1977, It is about the
peasants struggle to regain their country that was taken over by the colonial
government and later government of the day who retained the status quo. It
indicates that there were no gains made by the common man even after
chasing away the colonists. The common man still finds himself living in
poverty and misery even long after getting internal self government. The
book is a critique of capitalism and tries to offer a socialist solution to the
problem then.
The book is therefore a comparison of after indepence kenyan leaders and
the British colonial rulers. It gives its final verdict that there was indeed no
change realised by the kenyan peasants even after indipendence in 1963.
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2.2 PLOT
The plot of petals of blood is a detective story of resolving murder of three
industrialists of the imaginary town Ilmorog in Central County of Kenuya. In
the ensuing milee of investigation, four suspects are arested for questioning
by the police. These four represent the injustices the government has been
melting on the citizens. Their trial and vidication is a good example of the
struggle the people from colonial times and in persuance of the same
freedom still rise up against the oppressive neocolonism government.
2.3 STYLE
Ngugi uses the personalities life style to show us what is happenning to thwe
citizens under oppressive authrity of the governemnt. The individuals
represent both personal voice as well as a collective one for the villagers of
Ilmorog. Munira the main character arrives in the scene at the village and his
voice can be likened to theat of the narrator of the story. This novel has
taken its contributory place to the world of literature and through out the
story, we are able to understand what the author stands for in terms of his
ideologies and conviction of the right political system.
2.4 POINT OF VIEW
The petals of blood takes the point of view of both the first, second and the
third person narrators. Munira who is the main protagonist takes the place of
the second person narrator. He represents the views and opinions of the
villagers of Ilmorog. By employing multiple points of view, the book uses
four protaginists.Its points of view is limited to the four pratagonists through
their narration. The third person narrator is the all knowing narrative person
who represents the views of the villagers of Ilmorog.
2.5 SETTING
The novel petals of blood was first published in 1977, it is a literary criticism
of the then political situation in kenya. The time period of the novel is on
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modern Kenya in ten years after independence in 1963. Its setting is in an
imaginary village called Ilmorog in the cetral county of Kenya. It is a fiction
on political situation in Kenya. Involving a murder scene, it dipicts the life
and struggle of the main characters who number more than four (minira,
Wanja, Abdulla,and a police inspector).
2.6 CHARACTERISATION
Munira who is the main pratagonist, he was a primary school teacher at
Ilmorog. He is self confident and among the educated personalities
struggling to free themselves from the oppression brought about by the
colonial government and now the post independence administration.
Together with the other characters, they team up to fight the new oppressive
administration by eliminating the people they assumed were promoting
neocolonialism to the independent state. At times he takes the form of the
narrator as the main opinion leader in the story.
Abdulla was the second accussed of muder of murder of three African
directors of a foreign-owned brewery. He too was quite active on freeing
themselves from exploitation of labour by the factory owners at Ilmorog. He
was injured in the ordeal of the burning the factory. He was the second
murder suspect. Adbulla like the other people was struggling to survive as ashopkeeper and a bar owner. He had gained popularirty with the locals.
Wanja was one of the aggressive women involved in fighting neocolonialism.
She almost lost her life through the fire that was set up to burn the foreign-
owned brewery. She was outgoing and knew what she wanted in life. Her life
was a struggle to survive. She once worked in Abdullas shop and later
operated a brothel to make a living.
Karega too was a suspected murderer and a collaborator in fighting to free
themselvers from an oppressive system. He was involved in organising the
workers default in the local brewery. He appears to have carried a lot of clout
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from the workers as they went to demand for his release from police
custody.
The author uses the lives of the four main characters in dipicting the struggle
the villagers of Ilmorog go through. He uses them as an example of what was
happening to the rest of the people in the country.
(II) A DISCUSSION OF THE EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR ADULT
NONFICTION
1.0CELEBRATE THE OLDER YOU BY JO SCHLEHOFER
3.1 INTRODUCTION
This book gives details on how aging women should conduct themselves. It
points out the challenges brought about by age, the loneliness, living away
from close family members and how to overcome the social seperation and
all the issues that come with aging.
3.2 PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE
The purpose of this book is to help aging women on how to cope up with real
life issues that at times come with old age. These include loniliness, self pity
and dejection, seperarion from family members, marital challenges andspiritual issues. The author encourages the reader to celebrate old age and
gives the techniques of how to manage oneself in the midist of many mariad
and complex matters associated with aging women. The subject coverage of
the book is female aging issues and how to manage challenges that come
with age.
3.3 GENERAL STRUCTURE AND ARRANGEMENT
The book is organised in four main parts each dealing with a particular issues
associates with aging. The print is well spaced and the font size easy to read.
3.4 AUTHORITY
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The author is an expert in the fieldof gender issues. She holds an Master of
Arts (MA) degree in counseling from the University of San Francisco and a
life Credential in adult Education specialising in parenting from U.C.L.A., She
has conducted workshops on parenting for large corporations and Catholic
churches in california, Oregon and Washington. she is also an author of Joy in
parenting and other three video series on the same subject.
3.5 PUBLISHER
Jo Schlehofer, author of becoming a wiser, warmer, mature woman has
published her works with Pauline publications and Ave Maria Press. These
two publishers specialise in social science and Christian literature books.
3.6 ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY
Being a specialist and a scholar in this field, Jo Schlehofer has produced a
book with accurate facts of life that are reliable. She had helped many
people through her writing on the field. Being tilted towards christian
doctrine, the book has reliable facts founded on sound religious descipline .
3.7 ORGANIZATION AND CONTENT
The book is organised in four parts and each part has sub-topics touching on
issues sorrounding the main chapter. These include art I mirror, mirror on the
wall, part II you and me, Part III Freedom to be me and part IV soul nurturing.
Each of these four parts are well arranged with exercises whenever
necessary.
3.8 PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The book is a easy to read short handbook; small enough to be held by
hand. The reader can therefore carry it around with ease. The paperback
edition id bound in coulor and is well illustrated. It is a flashy paperback
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that can lure the reader to want to go through its contents creating a bit of
reading appeal and curiosity.
3.9 CURRENCY
The book was published in 1998 and is therefore current on contemporary
issues touching on the subject of aging for women. She has given a series of
lectures for those who are able to attend and vedeos releases. As a scholar,
Jo Schlehofer knows very well that she has to keep up to date with the
information she presents to her audience. It is the same lectures she gives
that she has transformed them into the book under evaluation.
4.0 SOURCES
Books evaluation criteria
Available:
www.tarleton.edu/departments/library/library_module/unit8/8books
( Accessed September 03, 2011)
Katz W.A 1.I997. ntroduction to reference work: volume I: basic information
sources. 7th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Katz W.A .1997. Introduction to reference work: volume III: reference
services and reference processes. 7th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book
Company
Ngugi wa Thiong'o. 1977 . Petals of blood. Nairobi: East Africa Educational
Publishers
Schlehofer, J 1998. Celebrating the older yuo: becoming a wiser, warmer,
mature woman. Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press
University of South Africa. Department of Information Science. 2 007.
Information Science:
only study guide for A IS206M: Describing library users and meeting their
needs. Pretoria
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Wikipedia.org/wiki. Sv petals_ of_Blood#Characters
Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petals_of_Blood#Characters (Accessed
September 3, 2011)
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Fiction title: Petals of blood
Author: Ngugi wa Thiongo
Publication date: 1977, 2005 reprint
Pagination: 345p.
Media type: Print Paperback
Genre: Novel
Type of Fiction: Adult fiction
Type of literature: High quality literature (belles-lettres)
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Nonfiction title: celebrate the older you: becoming a wiser, warmer,
mature woman
Author: Jo Schlehofer
Type of literature: Popular nonfiction
Publication date: 1998
Pagination: 176
Media type: Print Paperback
Genre: nonfiction
Type of Fiction: Adult nonfiction
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