Life is Sweet at Kumansenu Four Levels and Question Answers
Four Levels of Life is Sweet at Kumansenu
1.LITERAL COMPREHENSION :
All the action of the story takes place in a small African village, Kumansenu where an old woman, Bola stays alone with her granddaughter, Asi. In fact, she had given the birth of six boys child but each six times they had died. Again 7th time, she bore a boy child, luckily that seventh child survived for many years and his name was Meji. He also bore a daughter whose name was Asi. In the story, he had died on Friday in an accident of town office where he had worked for many years. According to his wife, as he opened the window to call the messenger, accidentally window fell and its edge almost cut his head off. But the very surprising matter is that he had come in front of the Bola being a live from the tomb and also given chocolate to his daughter. In the story, he has come to meet his mother, Bola on Friday and left house late Sunday midnight.
On Sunday afternoon, many villagers gather and as they hear Meji's presence from Bola's mouth, they mock her saying due to pain of tragic death of her son, .she made fantasy. Later from village magician, Musa we know that if she had destroyed her sixth son's broken bones, he could not have come pretending to be alive. However, Bola is quite happy of not destroying his bone because he could come and talk to her.
2.INTERPRETATION :
It is a supernatural story. In the story Bola's 7th son, Meji being alive from the tomb comes to meet his mother, Bola. Actually, in this story, he had died in town on Friday. He worked as a clerk in a town office. Accidentally, he was almost beheaded by the fallen edge of the window. In the story, he was the ghost Meji because as he was returning back through the desert way with his daughter. Asi was surprised of not seeing his shadow behind him. Likewise, he wears scarf around his neck, so that his head would not fall down. From the magician Musa, we know that Bola had not destroyed her sixth child bone, so he often comes to visit her pretending alive. could get little solace from her son, Meji's presence. The story really is filled by other supernatural elements like the goldsmith could not open the Asi's locket but later Asi remembering its hidden secret, she herself opened. Likewise, the ghost Meji went outside of this room that Saturday midnight and stood on the veranda but he was unwet in such downfall. Thus the writer shows supernatural elements throughout the text.
3.CRITICAL THINKING :
The major unacceptable idea of the text is its supernatural element. In this scientific world, we can not believe such elements. So, can a dead man become alive? Similarly, cannot we see our shade while walking? Likewise can a scarf upright the head? Magic man, Musa had said the secret to Bola that her son came back alive because Bola had not destroyed his bone. Is it possible to return back dead man if we keep his/her bone? Does it give any moral lesson ? So, an intelligent reader finds the text meaningless and senseless. It does not give any moral lesson. Instead, it aims to terrify for the reader. So does not it terrify the reader ?
4.ASSIMILATION :
After reading this story, I remembered my childhood time in which one village woman named Sita died while getting birth of a baby. That dead woman was from poor background and by job, she was a prostitute. She was socially outcast. On her death, the police inspector came to investigate and her dead body was taken to hospital for postmortem. After that many villager gathered and buried her dead body in the river side.
After her death, many villagers experienced that the woman, Sita often came to haunt them. Similarly nobody dared to walk from that river after 5 O'clock in the evening. But one local priest found the remedy to solve the problem. He invited all villagers in the evening in his house. Then he chanted many mantras. After chanting mantras by that priest, she never came back to trouble innocence villagers.
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Question Answers Of Life is Sweet at Kumansenu
Q.1.Defend the statement 'Life is Sweet at Kumansenu' can be seen as a statement about the power of love.
ANSWER : From the story, Life is Sweet at Kumansen, the reader can say that love can draw anybody even from the tomb Kumansenu is the name of African village where an old woman, Bola stays alone with her granddaughter, Asi. She had given the birth of six boy children but cach six times they had died Again 7th time, she bore a boy child Luckily that seventh child survived for many years and also given birth a daughter, Asi. Therefore, Ast was his daughter in fact, he had died on Friday in an accident of town office where he had worked for many years. According to his wife, as he opened the window to call the messenger, accidentally widow fell and its edge almost cut his head off. But the very surprising mater is that in the present time, he comes in front of the Bola on Friday being alive from the tomb and also gives chocolate to his daughter. He had come to meet his mother, Bola on Friday and left house late Sunday midnight. Then on Sunday afternoon, many villagers gathered. As they hear Meji's presence from Bola's mouth, they mock her saying due to pain of tragic death of her son, she was in illusion. From village magician, Musa, we know that if she had destroyed Meji's broken bones, he could not have come from tomb pretending to be alive but Bola seemed to be quite happy not destroying his broken bones.
Meji is too much loved by his mother, Bola, so he came from the tomb being alive and she also had not destroyed the broken bones of her sixth son because she wanted to give the chance of her son to come and talk with her being alive from the tomb. According to the village magician, Musa, if she had destroyed his bone, he would not have come from the tomb pretending alive.
Q.2. Do you see any spiritual dimension in the story?
ANSWER : This story is trying to show the existence of spirits in the world. Similarly it also asserts that if anyone dies untimely, the Pluto also gives the chance of being alive. Similarly, it also teaches us that body is perishable but the human beings' soul or spirit can not be destroyed. There can be found many spiritual dimensions in the story. Firstly, a dead man Meji being alive from the tomb came in his home to meet his mother, Bola. Secondly, in raining time, Meji did not get wet while he was in the veranda. Thirdly, while walking in the path of desert, Asi did not see shadow of her father, Meji Fourthly, Meji's broken head was caught by his scarf. Fifthly, a goldsmith could not open the locket but later on Asi remembering her father's way of opening it, she herself opened. Those all above mentioned things are spiritual dimension in the story.
Q.3. Could I said, as well, this story beautifully captures the gratitude of children towards their parents?
ANSWER : Yes, this story beautifully captures the gratitude of children towards their parents. Though Meji had died in town on Friday but pretending being alive, he came to meet his mother Bola on same day. He would love his mother very much, so even from the tomb, he was success to come to meet his mother coming to meet her, he does not like to share his family members happiness to others. For him, his other Bola was everything. He was quite loyal to his mother.
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