Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time
Gabriel Okara
The poem
Once Upon A Time highlights the wrong and resentment an African homosexual feels for himself to accepting the culture of the westerners. He notices a marked change in the attitudes of his concourseâ€"those whom were once so genuine, warm and sincere have now curtly turned cold and hostile towards him.
He realizes that the early values, which eternally existed in the African society (like sincerity, good-natured ness, simplicity, wholeheartedness, hospitality, friendliness, originality, identity, uniqueness and general satisfaction), have now faced a drastic, dramatic change. Post-colonized Africa has stack away a group of people who have completely alienated their feeling of community and belongingness and turned into a nation that views its people with hostility, unfriendliness, and suspicion. Their once simple and informal way of behaviour has plump artificial and squeeze, lacking genuine warmth and hospitality. The African man finds himself being gradually touch by this culture. He finds himself behaving in the same way as those around him. He begins to recede his African identity and follow the western way of living.



He feels a great sense of guilt and self-loathing and thinks about how sidestep he has become losing his identity and donning unalike, fixed expression for different occasions, an unnatural smile plastered across his face.
He resent completey admits that he, too, makes hollow greetings and started behaving in the same way that people behaved with him. He confesses to his son that he does not like the person he has become and wants to change, and go back to the way he was before, in his childhood. He beseeches his son, the only person he knows who has not been affected by the new culture, to teach him how to be enthusiastic and joyous and live life again. He asks his son to help him go back to who he was, and get back his lost identity. He expresses a desire to unlearn whatever he has forced himself to learn, in order for him to...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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