Question
How does Kelman use faith and the pigeon Papa in Pigeon English? (30 marks)
Mark scheme guidance:
- Harri's Ghanaian Christianity: prayer, reference to God, a framework of protection that proves insufficient.
- The pigeon as quasi-spiritual observer: in a few sections, it narrates in a lyrical, non-human register.
- Magical realism: the pigeon transcends the novel's social realism — it offers a perspective outside human time and violence.
- The pigeon's final watching of Harri's stabbing — witness; grief; inadequacy of witness.
- Context: magical realism tradition (García Márquez); West African spiritual traditions; the novel's refusal to resolve faith's adequacy.
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