A Meeting in the Dark (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Plot: Psychological, postcolonial
- Time of Work: The early 1960's
- Setting: Limuru, a village in Kenya
- Principal Characters: John, Stanley, Susan, Wamuhu
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Africa or Africans, Tradition, Blacks, Colonies or colonization, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Education or educators, Villages, Alienation, Dreams, Pregnancy, Violence, Christianity
- Locales: Kenya
The Story
“A Meeting in the Dark” tells the story of John, a young Kenyan man who worries most about what others, especially his father, think of him. John is consumed by a moral dilemma that he eventually fails to face with dignity.
The story begins with John thinking about the stories his mother used to tell him, particularly the story of the young girl who was deceived by an Irimu, an ugly ogre that had disguised itself as a handsome man. Unfortunately, John cannot remember the ending, and his mother no longer tells him stories.
John's father, Stanley, sees...
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