A Review of Proverbs

 

A Review Of

Proverbs

 

There are outstanding qualities of works selected throughout the amazing & insightful anthology on "Late beginning". However, there was a lot more to love and appreciate in Overcomer Ibiteye's Proverbs.

 

This flash fiction in all its excellence approaches the subject (Late beginning) with an exemplary narrative filled detail and a clear message which I think is the crux of any story. The writer captivates the interest of her readers in her opening paragraphs. The story begins with a broken voice plated with thick layers of disappointment. It was felt across every line. Her discomfiture for not being the kind of woman she would've loved to be. That woman "carved with shards of beauty". That woman filled with vigour and strength "a warrior" she metaphors. But, she ended up as an AIDS patient.

 

She vividly details her grandma's proverb which was coated with the fear of losing her grandchild to the same societal plague that left her daughter “…broken, used and single". A proverb she described as one that "sung the hymn of my (her) youthful troubles". 

 

Moreover, Overcomer's language throughout this story was the icing on the cake. It was the tool that held the moderators’ focus in place as the narrative saddled them across the shores. She didn't fail to create a nexus between the theme and her story by highlighting how fresh beginnings after wasted time could be difficult to start. A message; this shouldn’t be neglected by the young people of this generation. A warning; an advise that they should be careful of whom they walk with as they tend to take on their traits. 

 

 

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