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Jamb has decided to bring in
two novels in the forthcoming Jamb exams. According to the Jamb
syllabus, every candidate who is writing UTME this year should have a
mere knowledge of this two books: (1) The Potter’s wheel and (2) the
successors as they will pull-out questions on the passages.
The Potter’s Wheel is written by Chukwuemeka Ike and The Successors by Jerry Adaga.
Here is a short summary of the two books and some points you should
note. In case you don’t have the book this might be useful for you.
The potter’s wheel summary
The book was first publish in 1973 by vincent chukwuemeka ike, the book is a work of fiction and the story is unreal, obu was given five names and was thrown up six times by his dad after he came first in d school, obu distiquishin features are big heads and big
nose, obu refuse to go to skul when he was 4years old nt five, the name
of obu’s town umuchukwu, the first person to own a bicycle is okeke okafor n he describe it as a blind blind horse, mazi gave obu
red flute which was made in Japan, mazi(obu’s father) bicycle was
16years old, mama osondu is refer to as mama doctor becaus his son (osondu) was d first doctor in the village, David was born in the same week obu was given birth, 2 films was shot at d war front they are 1.shot of bridges 2. Giganti 3. Accident(those films were shot in the first film) while the second film signifies dat d palm kernel and rubber mere use to win wars, the main film was in form of any
kindom, THE FIRM postray d britian to be humane and courageous while
the german were refers to as wicked and greedy, heartless and senseless,
NOTE: THE COBRA REPRESENT THE GERMANS(IT REPRESENT WICKEDNESS) WHILE
THE MONGOSE (ITS REP THE POWER OF LIGHT) REPRESENT D BRITIAN.THE two terrorrist that was enlisted into the army are kingkong n uke and
the villages intentions are to forget them i.e they should die in d war
front, peace, The meanin of some important words as use in the potter’s
wheel passage are as follows:, bahama means low grass, jioji:cotton,
mgbedike: enyim:my friend masquerade with a large head, oji ugo: a
variety of the kola nut, ije nwat: mama oti’s title meaning the
footsteps of a child. Samba: a musical instrument.
Points to note in the potter’s wheel
1)mazi is the fada of obu and he gave birth to seven children, obu is
the 6th and he is the only male in the family, his best friend is oti
while the eldest of the three friends is samuel who is referred to as
the bully n tricksters, 2)obu came first in the school exam while he
was 5 year old while ogechukwu is older than obu with 3 years, but
ogechukwu failed, 3)obu said he doesnt wan to go to school at the age of
5, obu’s father is a cloth dealer n he was a dancer when he was young,
obu’s father also have a bicycle but the first person 2 ride bicycle in
ummuana town is chief okeke okafor. Obu was given a red flute to
congratulate him on his success, and obuechina was ask to name anything
he wants and he said a goat, mazi his father said we have one 4
christmas already while obu said he wants to learn how to ride a bicycle
and it was granted unto him, so obu’s mother over pampered him which
led to bed wetting and obu was melt to die at his 9 year birthday, as a
result of a mark n a stone called ogbanje stone which was buried and it
represent the life of obu, then obu wan david to teach him how to ride a
bicycle bt by that time he went to david’s house, david was sick while
he went to polycarps whom has followed his brothers to the river 4
fishing, obu was over pampered and his father was not please with his
mother so he father sent him to the village called Aka, in mr kanu
zacheus’ place known as the teacher, the man is known to be wicked,
himself and his wife, on getting there obu was maltreated by the wife of
the teacher, later obu was a register in a school central school,
Obuechina was sent to be a houseboy in aka(zacheus kanu’s place) he was
registered in a school called the central school where he met an osu
girl called margret, osu means outcast, so obu was classified as impure
as a result of the interaction between him and margret, monday was the
eldest of the houseboys, he is 19yr old, after a long while obu likes to
play tricks on the teacher as a result of the way he was treated by the
teacher’s wife, he wrote fake letters to the teacher his dad needs him
at home but the teacher refuse it until his dad send madu to visit Aka
town to check how his son obuechina is doing, on getting there, he slept
over and came back the next day with obuechina who his mother always
call onyigbo, his mother was so happy that he left what he was doin and
welcomed obuchina, then obu has totally change as a result of the lesson
he learnt in Aka town.
THE SUCCESSORS IS HERE…MORE
CONTRIBUTION WOULD BE UNAVOIDABLE BECAUSE HAS DIFFERENT CHARACTERS…the
story is a work of fiction and its unreal….terkura aste0and okoh are
both workin in provincial hotel at makurdi’….mr eze is a rich man that
usually comes to provincial hotel and he always give the two attendant
of d hotel some money….one day terkura dreamed that he own an hotel y
okoh laghed at him..later that day they heard that mr eze their helper
has been killed in a riot in kano….mr eze is not educated but a
businessman who influence the two boys and made them believ you can stil
make it even if ure not educated…mr eze is a trader and dealer…mr eze
has visited most of the countries in the world except usa and united
kingdom.. And eze always speak various nigerian language which made him a
multi liquistic..tekura told okoh there is goin to be war because
ojukwu is bombing Otukpo daily…okoh said ojukwu is concern with the
succession because of the discovery of oil in the eastern region, he
wants the total control and Gowon wont allow that to happen…mathew asten
is the dad of terkura and his a catechist while margaret is his mother
and he gave birth to six survivin children while the first born who was d
first born died and reduce the family to six natural they ought to be
seven, margaret mother of turkura wants him to marry torkwase but
terkura refused it because of his dream of goin to the
university…provincial hotel is a govt hotel, the home of okoh is
okporo…to be continued
This post is credited to Tega Dagreat
