Reading John Lara's The Samaritan: Plot Analysis and Characters (A Guide to Reading John Lara's The Samaritan, #1)
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John Lara's The Samaritan is an interesting play about modern politics in the caribbean and the so called third world. It adds a voice to the general criticism of corrupption and maladministration in these areas. This book aims at helping the reader understand the crafting of this play in terms of conflict and sub-conflicts and how they build the plot as well as the logic behind the characters, whow and what they are, and the role they play. This book introduces new ideas about dealing with the plot of a play. Many critics have simply examined what the authors intend. This book helps the reader do so him/herself by introducing a set of questions which make the ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE apparent to the reader without much struggle. The discussion of these issues which follows later now becomes an engagement between the critic and the reader in a way that the reader may agree or disagree, having discovered these issues himself/herself. This makes the criticism of John Lara's The Samaritan a more engaging experience.
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Jorges P. Lopez has been teaching Literature in high schools in Kenya and Communication at The Cooperative University in Nairobi. He has been writing Literary Criticism for more than fifteen years and fiction for just over ten years. He has contributed significantly to the perspective of teaching English as a Second Language in high school and to Communication Skills at the college level. He has developed humorous novellas in the Jimmy Karda Diaries Series for ages 9 to 13 which make it easier for learners of English to learn the language and the St. Maryan Seven Series for ages 13 to 16 which challenge them to improve spoken and written language. His interests in writing also spill into Poetry, Drama and Literary Fiction. He has written literary criticism books on Henrik Ibsen, Margaret Ogola, Bertolt Brecht, John Steinbeck, John Lara, Adipo Sidang' and many others.
