1) 'reproach of loved ones'- The Man is isolated from his family as he chooses to maintain his integrity and not accept bribes. He is ostracised for rebelling against the corruption around him

2) 'There was something there which I know we have lost these days.' The idea of revolt is brought in. There was a revolution, turnng away from the English colonialists, saying that things would get better. Now there is another threat of a revolt which also speaks of better days to come. It is all one cyclical corrupt machine, In fact 'nothing has changed'.

3) 'the waking of the powerless’ is the only way in which the country can find its beauty.

4) The man faces continuous inner conflict throughout the novel. He is torn between allowing himself to be drawn into greed and corruption and therefore become powerful and accepted or he wonders if he should continue on the road of candor and remain shunned. In the man's world a crooked man is a ' good, generous man' and those who strive for righteousness are ' cursed the jealous man who had informed on him.'

5) 'the timber merchant is right, the allocations clerk is right, and you are a fool. '

6) 'black men with white souls and names trying mightily to be white.'

7) 'the rotwhich imprisoned everything in its effortless embrace…'

8) 'The sons of the nation were now in charge after all. How completely the new thing took after the old.'

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Note on The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born By Ayi Kwei Armah, created by espionage81 on 02/07/2014.