Ride the Storm: Navigating Through Unstable Periods / Katerina Rudko (Belka G...
The Struggle Between Man and Nature in The Swamp Dweller
1. Struggle between human being and the
unfavourable force of nature in „The Swamp
Dweller‟
Name: Virani Nilam v.
Role No.:18
Sem.:3
Paper:E-C-402 African Literature
Submitted to:
S.B.Gardi Department of English
, S.M.K. Bhavnagar University
2. What is Unfavourable Force?
Dept. of Eng 4/8/2013
Which does not give Favour to human‟s plan o
living life.
e.g. What human „thinks‟ and what they „get‟
3. What is Force of Nature?
Dept. of Eng 4/8/2013
Outside of human control...
e. g. death, flood, drought etc...
5. Dept. of Eng 4/8/2013
Makuri :...He hardly said a word to anyone before he
rushed off again to see what the floods had done to his
arm... The man is a fool. I told him there wasn‟t a thing
to see except the swamp water ,but he rush out like a
madman, dropping his bundle on the floor. He said he had
to see for himself before he would believe it.
6. Dept. of Eng 4/8/2013
“Beggar : No, Friend There are many more
miles left of this river.”
7. Dept. of Eng 4/8/2013
“Beggar : Was there much damage to the farm?
kuri :Much damage? Not a grain was saved, not one tube
oil...And what the flood left behind was poisoned by the
swamp water...It is hard for him, coming back for a har
that isn‟t there.”
8. Dept. of Eng 4/8/2013
“Beggar : But it is possible then. It is
possible to plant on this land in spite of the
swamp.”