Trustworthy Patience Livingstone Lerionka

shown he cares. The decision made by his father on sending him to Arusha, he did not fight back but he accepted with heavy heart because he cares and does not want to fight with him. In the novel, Lerionka has decided to go to school for it is the right choice. He heard from the meeting that the Government will sell all their cattle and arrest the father‟s of the children and send them to them to dig roads if they do not let the children go to school. He did not, but he has to, otherwise they will take him to an unknown place and sell our cattle, and then they will take me to school in his absence. This will leave you with great trouble. I do not want that, mother. I had better go and leave you in peace. I promise you that i will not forget you p. 16. Even though Lerionka does not want to go to school, he has no choice but to go. He does not want to see his father and mother suffer. Though he is still a boy, but he can think like an adult and make rational decision for the safety of his family. The second evidence is shown when Lerionka returned to his family from school. His father decided to send Lerionka to Arusha to his brother in law instead of school. Upon hearing this Lerionka was dissappointed with the decision made by his father. He was beginning to like school, asked about the father‟s decision Lerionka could not answer but he accepted his father‟s decision. My roots were there. Freedom from there, fleeing to a safer, gentler world, did not come to my mind. I felt that i was to go there to please my father. But it did not matter how far away i went i thought, i would always go back to that dear land where i was born p. 39. The reason he accep ted his father‟s decision was not to anger him. For he does not want to fight with his father. He had to go even though he does not want to. Lerionka though that Arusha is far away from his homeland, he will miss it.

b. Kariankei

In the story, Kariankei made a decision for Lerionka since he could not make a decision whether he wanted to go to Arusha. He has reveal the modernity of rationality, a decision to send his son away from school. „If you don‟t know,‟ he said, looking at the river as if he was not talking to me,‟i will decide for you. I think that is the best action to take. As i have told you, i doubt very much whether a man would be able to hold books at the same time as he hold his sticks and spear. You will go to Arusha, where your mother came from. I think no one will be able to trace where you have gone p. 37-38. Kariankei making a rational decision to send his son Lerionka to Arusha hoping that the government would forget him. He wanted Lerionka to do the same thing as Lekakeny the son of Saidimu, he left school and returned to the village. Kariankei is very strict about his decision because he does not want the government to look for him, he thought that if they would not look for Lekakeny then they won‟t look for Lerionka. Kariankei as a father cares for his son ‟s well being by sending him to Arusha, he should be safe from the government. He did not have any choice because he did not want to lose his only son to the ways of the foreigners.

c. Livingstone

Livingstone wrote a letter to Lerionka saying that he no longer teaches instead he became an activist.