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kemi
kemi
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College - Senior

What are the advantages of the use of epistolary technique in Mariama Ba's So Long A Letter?

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Posted by kemi on Monday September 10, 2007 at 8:21 AM and tagged with advantages, epistolary, so long a letter, technique.

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  1. renelane Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

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    Epistolary tecniques are excellent ways for the character's feelings to be portrayed without breaking point of view, or having to reveal it through dialogue between characters.

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    Posted by renelane on Monday September 10, 2007 at 1:17 PM

  2. ohymaa
    ohymaa Student
    Graduate School

    the main idea of the story is for women to voice out their problems and give an  insight scoop into the ordeals that women go through.this is a petition to the world to help improve certain traditions that relinguish women to the background.the author therefore  terms the book into a letter form so as to avoid any interruption.the reason? for the first time women are letting themsdelves to be heard and this time they want nothing to stop them or stand in their way.

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    Posted by ohymaa on Monday October 6, 2008 at 6:05 PM