"Wedding at the Cross" was a really great short story written by Ngugi because it really does demonstrate the people in today's society. Meaning people in today's society marry people with the same values or equal to one another. Rich people marry people that are rich and nothing less. However it should be "I am going to marry that individual because I love him/her" not because of all the money he/she has that should not matter. Wedding at the Cross really demonstrates someone that doesn't marry someone that has all the money in the world. Ngugi shows that through the character Miriamu. She marries this man that doesn't has all the money in the world in fact her parents were not happy that she married this man. Miriamu went behind her parents values and she didn't take into consideration about how her parents would feel because she realized that its not about what her parents thought.
The quote " Money is the root to all evil" really does hold true in this particular short story because Wariuki starts to struggle with his is identity because he wanted to become someone that he wasn't, to prove to Miriamu father that he was this great rich man, in which Wariuki was a great man but Livingston this new man wasn't to Miriamu. Wariuki allowed money to change his name and become this man that was full of himself. Miriamu wanted to marry the man she fell in love with but decided not to marry livingston if that makes sense. Ngugi shows the readers that just because your wealthy doesn't make your life heaven, money can make your life a living hell if you let it rule your life.
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