We are going to discuss Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes. Please provide your in-depth interpretation and analysis on the questions (at least 100 words per Discussion question #1, #2, and #3). Please try to include textual evidence (direct...
We are going to discuss Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.
Please provide your in-depth interpretation and analysis on the questions (at least 100 words per Discussion question #1, #2, and #3). Please try to include textual evidence (direct quotes along with the Act and Scene #) in your answer.
Aidoo is a Ghanaian writer. Please watch a video clip on Aidoo (about 3 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_gJwy9yjrkLinks to an external site.
About the setting of the novel:
Aidoo's novel Changes, published in 1991, is set in the late 1980s in Ghana (The only clue I can find about the time period is when the protagonist Esi Sekyi mentions a personal computer she buys with the help of her cousin. See page 138).
Ghana became independent of British colonial rule in 1957, and the novel is set in postcolonial Ghanaian society. Aidoo indirectly and briefly mentions the British colonial influence on the country. For example, she depicts in the novel that Opokuya and Kubi live in "the most prestigious of the colonial residential areas" (16); Ali's father distrusts the white man's bank even after independence (26); Esi's mother and grandmother have an ambivalent view on Esi's education, calling it "the dangerous confusion she was now in and the country now was in" (114).
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Discussion Question #1 for Aidoo's Changes (1991, pp. 1-30)
Where does Esi Sekyi work and what does she do there? Why is she angry with herself when she has to go to a travel agency, Linga HideAways?What do you make of the author Aidoo's choices of Esi's and Oko's occupations? Does Oko understand Esi's frustration at work? Oko tells Esi, “My friends are laughing at me. They think I’m not behaving like a man” (8). What does he mean by “not behaving like a man”? Why is Esi frustrated with Oko and vice versa?
Discussion Questions #2.
Why is Oko convinced that he must not say sorry to Esi after the morning incident? Why was she particularly angry with Oko on that Monday morning? Why does the term "marital rape" (12) not exist in the indigenous language and what does it say about marriage as a social institution in Ghanaian society? Does marriage protect both men and women in that society? Although many people in Ghanaian society do not believe the term "marital rape," Esi decides to call the Monday morning incident a "marital rape" and wants to end their marriage. What does Esi's decision signify and what does she refuse to accept?
Discussion Question #3 for Aidoo's Changes
What does Opokuya do for a living and what does her husband Kubi do? What argument/conflict does Opokuya have with Kubi every morning (18), and why does Kubi not allow Opokuya to use the car? How would you characterize Kubi? Earlier when Esi visited Ali's office, she thought of a "strange message" (3). What does it foreshadow? Why does Ali think he resembles his father Musa Musa (23-4)?
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