read the excerpt below from the story “marriage is a private affair” by chinua achebe and complete the statement that follows.

“[nene] is a good christian,” his son went on, “and a teacher in a girls’ school in lagos.” “teacher, did you say? if you consider that a qualification for a good wife, i should like to point out to you, emeka, that no christian woman should teach. st. paul in his letter to the corinthians says that women should keep silence.”

this passage is an example of

a. racial bias
b. character vs. self conflict
c. generational dilemma
d. falling action

The right answer is the C) Generational dilemma.

Explanation: In this excerpt from the short story "Marriage Is a Private Affair" by African novelist Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) there is a clear reference to the generational differences that exist between a father and his son. For the son, Nnaemeka, the fact that Nene (the woman he loves and the one that he wants to marry) is a well-educated woman, who has a career and works in a school are good qualities, but for his father, who belongs to a previous generation, they are not. Women, he believes, are meant to be exclusively wives, and a good wife, and a good Christian woman, should not work outside the household.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

original oratory is a competitive event in the national speech and debate association, stoa usa, national catholic forensic league, and other high school forensic competitions in which competitors deliver an original speech on a subject of their choosing, though the speech must be factual.racial discrimination refers to discrimination against individuals on the basis of their race. policies of racial segregation may formalize it, but it is also often exerted without being legalized and also it means facing injustice.