English takehome quiz . . .

Finally done!!! although I don't think I did to well with the title anyways I don't think my teacher will notice that I read my friends essay. Sure we have the same idea but I used my own words to explain my thesis. Anyways the idea is kinda common so I'm sure my other classmates thought of it as well.  I can't say that I'll get a high grade but I think it enough to give me a 15 out of 20.  Here's my essay on Wole Soyinka's Telephone Conversation:

It Wasn’t The Right Time

            There are many ways in gaining what you want.  One can buy or beg or negotiate for it although things like freedom and equality cannot be gained through money.  Some would fight for it like through violence or literature.  Many of our national heroes used literature as a means of gaining our freedom.  That act of attaining freedom can also be seen in other continents and one in particular would be Africa.  But is using literature really as effective in getting people to see you ideas?  During the times where education isn’t open for all using literature to open the eyes of conquerors to your ideas may prove to be effective but in the eyes of your fellow countrymen it may be less effective for not ever one is well-educated or would have the patience to completely understand its depth.

            Wole Soyinka is a very well-known poet from Africa and one of his poems is the Telephone Conversation.  This shows the prejudice of the English woman to Wole Soyinka after knowing he was black and in a bigger scope the racism between the black and the white men.  The prejudice is very visible because we can follow in the conversation that after a while the person on the other side of the phone call did not like his being dark toned.  Her changing of her mind in letting him stay proved this.  The only thing that was hard to comprehend was their difference in races.  If the person reading this didn’t know that it was written by an African fighting for his freedom then he would just consider this an act of injustice.  Only when he would take time to re-read it again and analyze each line would he realize that it was a conversation between an English woman and an African.  This shows that it would take a literate person to get the idea but are most Africans literate?  If he wants to convince his fellow countrymen and share his idea I think it would have been more effective if Wole simplified his piece.

            In the times of Wole Soyinka where education is not open for all I believe that it would have been more effective to use means other than literature to convince his fellow countrymen of his ideas. 

I wonder if you can consider this an essay even if its so short.