The African Storyteller

The Unborn Child

Carefully read the story excerpt and the accompanying commentary. Questions will be presented after select passages.

A man had taken a wife, and now she had the joy of being with child. But a famine was acute.

There is an introductory conflict: there is a famine, and it is having an effect on a pregnant woman and her husband. It sets them in motion, moving them from their home in quest of food.

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