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Essay Topics

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Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how the natives handle the disputes such as Farah's younger brother, Wainaina and Kaninu, Kabero, and how a European judicial system would handle these matters.

Essay Topic 2

Explain your own view of Karen Blixen, her life in Africa, how she meets challenges, how she relates to the natives, how she finally deals with the loss of her farm.

Essay Topic 3

Farah is disappointed with the Jew in The Merchant of Venice in that he does not take his pound of flesh. Knowing what you do about how the natives place so much importance on reparations, how does Farah's disappointment that the punishment of a pound of flesh was not taken in Shakespeare' story fit in with his sense of justice?

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