Joy Agwu

A Cry Within Joy Agwu

A Cry Within describes two children who were born of the same parents, a brother and sister who are always in constant disagreement with each other. The boy tends to be very playful and unconcerned, while the girl is very articulate in all her ways. Their parents believed so much in superstition and tradition, and this brings consistent divergent opinions between these parents and their two children. The girl, who is in the center of everything, envisaged the coming of an evil day and succeeded in drawing her brother's attention to her thoughts and feelings concerning a traditional right that was performed on her behalf when she was two years old. The boy in like manner was so troubled that he vowed that his sister must not marry a man whom she was betrothed to at the age of two, maintaining that his sister has the right of speech and freedom to choose who she wants as a husband. On swearing to stop at nothing to save her sister from being a victim of a tradition, which he considers insignificant, an indirect intimidation and injustice against women and children related his concerns to his friends.