Narrator and point of view

The short story “They Sold My Sister” by Leteipa Ole Sunkuli is a first-person narration, told from the point of view of the character-narrator, a 12-year old Maasai girl named Naliki.

As a narrator, her perspective focuses on her attitude towards arranged marriages: “I saw … with my own eyes. I saw the father of my sister's husband-to-be pull out a wad of red hundred shilling notes.” (ll. 15-17); “I looked into my sister's eyes. I loved my father and mother, but for the first time I wished them dead.” (ll. 132-133)

The story about her sister’s forced marriage is told in retrospect. Because the events happened two years before, the narrator already knows t...

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