From the novel; The Victims
This question is based on Isidore Okpewho’s The Victims.
‘It ish only becaush of your late feda that we have been sho shilent. When we came to thish town and had nowhere to shtay, hw gave ush shelter, then let ush work on hish farm and fed ush there
He ish the one we are yeshpecting ‘.
This passage is written in this way in order to show that the speaker
- cannot spell correctly
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cannot speak English correctly
- is a stranger
- is very angry