Fathers of Nations Essays and answers-set 1

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This document contains 9 best KCSE essays for Fathers of Nations

1) Write an essay using examples from Paul B. Vitta’s Fathers of Nations to
demonstrate how revenge only makes things worse.
We occasionally suffer at the hands of others. We usually feel compelled to avenge
or retaliate. Seeking vengeance, on the other hand, causes additional suffering or
anguish, as in the example of Professor Kimani and Engineer Tahir in Paul B. Vitta’s
Fathers of Nations.
To begin with, when Professor Kimani’s wife abandons him for a rogue member of
parliament, he pursues vengeance but ends up in even more anguish. Professor
Kimani’s career as a revolutionary educator begins when he accepts a position as a
high-flying senior lecturer at the Institute of Development Studies at the University
of Nairobi. In addition, he marries Asiya Omondi, a campus beauty. This was before
he became a professor. When Walomu steals his wife, his problems begin. When
Asiya informs him that she is leaving him for Walomu, he wonders if it is for
financial reasons. Professors used to earn more than MPs. MPs now earn hundreds
of times more and are not required to pay taxes, a legal coup. As a result of the
recession, Professor Kimani is cash-strapped. He eats at a low-end restaurant, and
his car breaks down once again and he plans fix it when he earns his next paycheck
an indication of hard financial times he is facing. Asiya humiliates him by urging
him to leave teaching to pursue politics like Newton Walomu, who now owns four
cars in comparison to Kimani, who only has a dying old Toyota. It breaks the
professor’s heart that he lost his wife to a loud fellow