Literature in EnglishLiterary appreciation: unseen proseJAMB

Read the passage below and answer the question. When the bus finally coughed into Ore junction, Tunde had already decided that he would not cry. The hawkers surged forward, waving trays of roasted plantain and bottles of water above their heads like flags, and their voices rose into one long, cheerful quarrel. He pressed his forehead against the dusty window. Somewhere behind him, in a village whose name the city boys would laugh at, his grandmother was probably sweeping the compound, humming the song she always hummed when she was pretending not to be sad. 'You will come back a big man,' she had said, folding his two shirts as carefully as if they were made of gold. Tunde had nodded, because grown-ups like nodding. Now, watching a little girl his age balance a basin of oranges on her head, he wondered who had folded her shirts that morning.

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