Ngugi writing

To me Ingugi was a creative writer. He talked about the colonization of the mind in his stories. I feel he was kind of confusing as a writer. He write the stories to people who understand some of the African Language. After discussing it in class i felt like his stories were great! Talking about it kept my attention the entire time.

My favorite story that we read was "Wedding at the Cross" This story was very interesting to me. Miriamu and Wariuki were just two people in love with one another. The only problem was that Miriamu came from a very wealthy family. Her dad mainly tried to act like one of the British. He was a man of great expectations from his daughter. He demanded that she marry a man just as wealthy as them. Miriamu went against her dads wishes. She fell in love with Wariuki who was just a milk clerk. He had no money whats so ever. The only thing that Miriamu worried about was that she was in love with the man and that's who she really wanted to be with. Her father disapproved of Wariuki. He was not a rich man who could take care of his daughter the proper way. One day they both ran away and lived together. Wariuki gave her children. They always made love to one another. Neither of them could be happier. Wariuki was determined to change her fathers mind. He did whatever he could to become a wealthy man. When he returned he was changed. He was not the man that Miriamu fell in love with. Her father fell in love with the man he became. At the end she refused to marry him. She said in the story that he became her father and she did not like that one bit.

This is how Ngugi is trying to describe Colonization. He was a true man, that is what Miriamu loved about him. He went off away from her to become rich and that is how the mind becomes colonized. That part really made me mad! Your wife loves you for the way that you are. Impressing her father is what most wives do not care about. Living with someone that is completely changed would be really hard to live with.  Money and wealth colonizes the mind. Most of our country is like this and that is what has to change. People need to stick to what is true to them, not how much money they have so they are better than others. No one is better than anyone. We are all equal no matter how much money we have and that is what people do not understand. I have family that stopped talking to the rest of the family because they got wealthy really quick. Now they think they are better than everyone else. This is why this story bothers me so much.