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    A Study Guide for Grace Ogot's "The Rain Came"
    A Study Guide for Grace Ogot's "The Rain Came"
    A Study Guide for Grace Ogot's "The Rain Came"
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    A Study Guide for Grace Ogot's "The Rain Came"

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    A Study Guide for Grace Ogot's "The Rain Came," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535839129
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      A Study Guide for Grace Ogot's "The Rain Came" - Gale

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      The Rain Came

      Grace Ogot

      1968

      Introduction

      Grace Ogot, aKenyan from the Luo ethnic group, is recognized as one of the foremost female authors of English-language fiction from the African continent. After attending a 1962 African literature conference at Makerere University, in neighboring Uganda, at which East African work was not even on display, she was inspired to publish her writings. At that conference, Ogot read aloud her story The Year of Sacrifice, which was subsequently published in Black Orpheus in 1963; this story was later reworked and retitled The Rain Came. Ogot first learned the traditional version of this tale, about a chief's daughter who a medicine man claims must be sacrificed in order to bring rain, from her grandmother in evening family storytelling sessions in the elder's hut. She felt an affinity with the daughter, Oganda—as well as a fear that she, too, might someday be called upon to be sacrificed. As she told Oladele Taiwo, who appraises her work in Female Novelists of Modern Africa, she resolved as a youth, If one day I can write, I shall write the story of Oganda so that other people can know she was sacrificed for the welfare of her people. With its traditional setting and foundation in oral history, its focus on the fate of a young woman in a patriarchal society, and its sustained life-or-death tension, The Rain Came is one of Ogot's most renowned stories. It can be found in her collection Land without Thunder (1968) as well as the anthology Global Cultures: A Transnational Short Fiction Reader (1994), edited by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.

      Author Biography

      Ogot was born as Grace Emily Akinyi on May 15, 1930, in the village of Asembo, Kenya, near Kisumu, a regional center situated on Lake Victoria, which is called Nam Lolwe by the Luo. From an early age, she was very fond of hearing folktales from her grandmother, who was an inspiring storyteller. In turn, her father, a schoolteacher, read from storybooks in English and Kiswahili—Kenya's two national languages—which he also translated into sDholuo for his children. When she could read herself, Akinyi was moved to read the Old Testament in its entirety several times. Like her father and many modern Luos, Ogot is Christian, though this is not exclusive of traditional beliefs. Captivated by fiction and starting to write her own stories while attending Butere Girls' High School, Akinyi then attended nursing

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