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English, 14.12.2019 08:31 granniejo

Read the excerpt from "civil peace” by chinua achebe. "ah, missisi de cry again. no need for dat. we done talk say we na good tief." which is the best translation of the dialect in the excerpt?
“ah, i hear you crying again. you shouldn’t do that. we will make the thieves go away.”
“ah, your wife is crying again. there is no need for that. we said we were good thieves.”
“ah, your kids are crying again. there is no need for that. we will make the thieves go away.”
“ah, your wife is crying again. we will call the other thieves over here if she doesn’t stop.”

read the excerpt from "civil peace” by chinua achebe.

of course the doors and windows were missing and five sheets off the roof. but what was that? and anyhow he had returned to enugu early enough to pick up bits of old zinc and wood and soggy sheets of cardboard lying around the neighbourhood before thousands more came out of their forest holes looking for the same things.

how does the setting affect jonathan’s actions in the excerpt?

jonathan returns to enugu to the thousands of other people clean up the war-torn area.
jonathan works on rebuilding his house early in the morning with the materials he finds on the ground.
jonathan works on the other houses in the neighborhood before moving on to fix his own house later.
jonathan returns to enugu early to collect debris before others in the war-torn area do.

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