Summary of Weep Not Child English Literature Essay
Short summary of the novel. The book is the story of a young boy named Ngoroge and his family. He was born to a man Ngotho, who worked for a white man Sir Howlands, although he was under the supervision of Jacobo, a villager whose name was his. Ngonge had brothers, Jomo, Kamau and Boro Ngoroge loved education so much. This year marks the anniversary of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child. When the novel was originally published by Heinemann's African Writers Series, the author James Ngugi was a young Kenyan student at the University of Leeds. However, after his better-known third novel, A Grain of Wheat (1967), he changed his mind,