Beginning with the unfortunate death of her father at an early age, her mother Mrs Ugodiya Nduka is now left to take care of her little daughter Joana. Joana has a best friend named Phina Nsoba,The girls [Joana] and Phina are best friends so they do everything together, they live on the same street’ attend the same school and church Joana and Phina love God which is seen in their like for church. Joana is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she tries to emulate her chastity.
The common entrance examination result is being released and she {Joana} comes top but refuses to tell her mum because she is scared of her financial stability, but with time her mother finds out and tells her not to worry because God will provide and also warns her about being to wise for her age. Joana and Helen bassey are being posted to the same school “Estate Girls Secondary School”. As a result of the rate of poverty in Joana’s life she is being made to hawk bean balls and pap and [akara and akamu].
One morning while hawking as usual she comes across a customer [Mr Emudo] who sexually harasses her but she decides not to tell her mother about her encounter but only discloses it to her friend Phina, after the incident she tries avoiding Mr Emudo unaware of the fact that Phina has been collecting money and gift items from him in her name, one morning as the girls go hawking, they jump into him and he invites the girls to his house then they agree as they are about leaving he begs Joana to forgive him if he has ever offended her.
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One day while in cathecism class the Priest Father Odo addresses them and preaches basically about the sin of the flesh which are adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, masturbation and lust. He explains that other sins are without the flesh because they are initiated by the heart which is by will and its only cure is total avoidance and the presence of the holy spirit the priest ends the sermon with few words which keeps ringing bell in joana’s ears [Live the way you were created, if you were created to endure’ endure if you can’t endure then……].
Joana is being accompanied by her mum for an interview in her new school which is situated away from the heart of the settlement called Abakpa and Joana is worried about the distance, while in the school for the interview the Principal tells Mrs Nduka to take care of Joe considering the fact that she was going to be a day student and also because he likes brilliant students like Joe.
As she resumes school she realizes that she has a competition in class [JACINTA UGONNA ONYIA] because she beats her in a test by a single mark, it boosts her morale so she decides to read harder in other to always be the best in class and she has Okey her neighbor whom she also sees as her brother to guide her. Now it’s the end of term, Joana and her friends are excited and so they go to the canteen to celebrate and Helen decides to buy drinks for everyone [Cecil, Phina ,Joe, Benedicta, Ugonna] they all decide to visit Pauline’s house, getting to the house Pauline’s mum receives them warmly and serves them different drinks.
While in the living room Joe notices a portrait of Pauline’s elder brother [Johnny] which she unnecessarily gets attracted to. She becomes very eager to know him and fears because her friends do not support the fact that she’s in love with a so called small boy. With time the girls become very close and plan on going for a party at benedicta’s so Joe devices a lie and tell her mum which was her only way of attending the party, while at the party the girls are given different rooms to stay in, they are also being paired with different men.
Joe is paired with a young handsome man Dr, Uko. On the dance floor she sees her dream man Johnny walking in with another girl, Joana gets emotionally depressed and drags Dr Uko into a room, she falls for his sensual touch and tries to force herself on him but he pushes her away, later she thanks him for not letting her ruin her life. At the end of the party Joe is unable to find anyone In the house, she walks into a room and finds Helen and benedicta drunk and stalk naked in the absence of men but is still confuse on what to think.
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One day Joe returns from school to hear an alarming news about Ijeh {her neighbor} who dies of abortion, as a result of the news Joe fears for her own life and advices her friends to be careful in other not to get the same fate as ijeh. Joanna, now the best student in her class is being praised by her teachers,also her friend Ugonna warns and advises her to deviate from evil acts and be born again and also tells her problem is the spirit of self righteousness and bad company but Joe wouldn’t listen.
Joe begins to receive gift items from her new University boyfriend Johnny. Finally Joe’s hardwork pays off as she is being awarded with a scholarship on the grounds that she wouldl be spending her holidays in Nsukka for their Pilot seedling program. As she moves into the Dormitory, she has Helen as her roommate, Helen introduces Joana into lesbianism after a paired up bath at the spring of love. From time to time they continue with their ill acts. While in Nsukka she makes two friends Felicia and madam ukwatte.
Madam ukwatte advices her to flee in case of any sexual harassment from their director and she heeds to the advice and flees home. While at home she refuses to let her mother know about what conspired in nsukka and also that her scholarship had being withdrawn, discloses her problem to okey and her Friends. On hearing this, Okey becomes very angry and leaves the house with the promise that he would return, as a result of the withdrawn scholarship Joana becomes very ill and lean.
Okey returns and beckons Joana to tell him the truth about what happened at Nsukka, she explains everything to him and he becomes very angry and lays curses on the director, even threatening to deal with him, after that he discloses to Joana something he’d always wanted to tell her which is if she would marry him, on hearing this she faints. Thanks to the kindness of Dr Uko, Joe gets her scholarship back on and he helps her mother financially and there ends their days of poverty.
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As joe resumes her friends and teachers are extremely happy to see her, with time she gets to hear about the news of Okey’s accident and so Helen advices her to visit him in the hospital and tell him that if its Gods will for them to get married then so be it, she heeded to Helen’s advice and everything works out well. With time Helen introduces Joe to a cream called “seed of love” in which she uses everyday and whenever she uses it, it arouses her sexual pleasures but she never bothered to knowss how it came about, this marks the beginning of er doom. Still on that Helen introduces her to another cream called “Queens power” which transformed her skin and she was glowing, looking much more prettier than before and this made some girls in school aspire to be like her, some wanted to know the secret of her beauty, while other disgruntled and jealous girls wear sad faces whenever they see her. One day she decides to follow Helen to the so called distance market where she buys the cream, but Helen knowing the consequences tries to convince her but she was bent on following her.
On their way to the market they cross a place called the groove of eternity and immediately, they find themselves in a building where a Queen {Queen of ephata} entices her with different proposals including the fact that she was going to be on scholarship in the university level,on the grounds that she was going to join them, so she agreed. Getting back to the hostel she tells Ugonna about her encounter with the Queen of Ephata and her promises to her, then Ugonna begins to cry and says “Joe you have finally ruined your life”.
Finally Joe realizes the implication of her action and sobs, Ugonna takes her to her pastor and they pray for her, even with that, Joe is bent on going back for the coronation. Ugonna tries to convince her not to go back but she refuses. On their way just as they got to the groove of eternity and were about to rub the substance on their face, Joe remembers her mother and decides to run back but Helen tries to convince her saying it’s already too late to turn back, but Joe refuses.
Just as she tries to run back she sees the Queen of ephata right in front of her and she runs for her dear life but unfortunately for her, she slumps and becomes unconscious. Finally she was dug out by some workers but her environment had changed, now she was in another world she tries searching for her identity but to no avail, she goes back to her school but everything seems different and nobody recognizes her, she tries going going home and it seems the same there. Now she’s in a world living on her own and struggles to know has happened to her, with time she gets to find out that she is in the future i. {25 years time} and all her friends are now grown but she still remains the way she was, instead of committing suicide she picks up her Pen to write her life story starting with the words “My name is Joana Ifesinachi’’. TEXT EVALUATION THEMES: Sexual Immorality: The theme of sexual immorality is dominant in the novel, starting with the sexual harassment by Mr. Emudo who sexually harassed little Joana when she goes to sell bean balls “akara” to him. Even when young Junior Secondary School girls i. e. Joana’s friends [phina, Cecil, Benedicta] sleep around with older men.
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Also when the girls perform lesbian acts like, bathing in pairs and massaging each others body. Poverty: The theme of poverty revolves from the beginning of the novel and ends somewhere in the middle, the poverty begun with the death of her father. Her mother toiled very hard to make ends meet even little Joana was made to hawk every morning, it was as a result of the poverty that made Joana wiser than her age, in the sense that she didn’t want to tell her mum about her scholarship. And it was also scholarship that made Joana keep bad company. Peer Pressure:
The theme of peer pressure is one of the strongest themes in the novel that was what led her to her doom. i. e it was her friends that made her lie to her mother for the first time in her life, and also because she saw the other girls bathing in pairs she decided to join their league. SETTING The book ‘The sin of the flesh” was set in different places starting from; Uriom: The place where Joana was born Abakpa: This is the main place where the main plot took place i. e. her school Estate Girls Secondary School. Nwodo close, Hospital drive: benedicta’s house, where the party took place.
Nsukka: Where the pilot seedling project took place. CHARACTERIZATION MAJOR CHARACTERS: Joana Ifesinachi Nduka: the protagonist Helen Chikaodi Bassey: Joana’s friend and roommate who led her to her destruction. Mrs Nduka: Joana’s loving and caring mother who suffers to make ends meet for herself and her daughter. Phina Nsoba: Joana’s childhood bestfriend who always had her eyes on older men who would sleep with her and give her money MINOR CHARACTERS: Ugonna: Joana’s born again friend who had warned her to keep away from bad company and give her life to Christ.
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In an endeavor to define an ideal woman, we compare two Literature works which are the Kincaid’s short story “Girl” and Jane Martin’s play, “Rodeo”. Comparing these two works, we see two contrasting definitions of an ideal woman as they are brought out in different settings. In the Kincaid’s short story, “Girl”, we notice for instance that a girl should live a humble life that is respectful to all ...
Okey: Joana’s neighbour whom she saw and took as a brother as a result of the closeness of their mothers. Johnny: Joanna’s University boyfriend, whom she was so much in love with starting from the first day she sighted his picture. STYLE The novel is made up of two parts; Lightening the fire and the disaster where her destruction finally surfaced. The novel was written in the first person narrator therefore making the book a narrative one THE USE OF LANGUAGE The language of the Author is very simple and easy to understand in a way that the use of dictionary while reading the novel is not really necessary.
The author made use of figures of speech examples are; my stomach rumbled with fear, here the author personifies the word ‘fear’. Another example of personification is ‘sadness was written all over her”. The use of Pidgin English examples are burukutu, kulikuli e. t. c. Mood and Tone: the mood of the narrator is sad while the tone is regretful. SUMMARY The novel mirrors the social decay in our contemporary society especially amongst teenagers. The story is centered on Joana Ifesinachi a perfect beautiful girl born to endure.
With a towering ambition and her promise to her mother, she tries to subdue all odds as she battles her way to put off an endless string of zealous men, unfortunately for her she fails to heed the advice of a good friend who tells her to keep away from bad company, as a result of that, she falls into the hands of seemingly harmless lesbian girls. And, before she discovers herself she was already deep down in to the waters of darkness and now tries to escape but it’s now too late to turn back as she finds herself in another world of misery, sadness and regrets. RECOMMENDATION
The book titled “The sin of the flesh” by Sylvester Edelugo, ought to be recommended to junior secondary school students because of the use of simple English, But as a result of the writer’s use of wild sexual terms which really creates an imagery of the story. It should therefore be recommended to University student as a result of the fact that they are matured enough. PUBLISHING DETAILS Title: “The sin of the flesh” Author: Sylvester Edelugo Category/ Subject area: Prose/ fiction Imprint: Enugu, El’demark publications {nig} LTD 2004. Pagination: 461 pages Price: #1,000 ISBN: 978-8061-48-6
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