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101/3
ENGLISH
Paper 3
(Creative writing and Essays from the set texts)
June, 2025
Time 2 ½ Hours
KASSUJET, 2025
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
101/3 ENGLISH

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1. Imaginative Composition

(a) Write a composition beginning:

“One look at his face told me that I had no option but tell the whole truth….”

- Should begin with the statement or -2AD

- Written in the first person showing experiences between the writer and the person he or
she was facing.
- The composition should show that something bad had happened and the narrator knew
about it.
- The story must bring out a moral lesson

(b) Write a story to justify the proverb:

Birds of a feather flock together

- It must be a story that justifies the given saying.

- It should be about friends who share similar hobbies, interests or lifestyles.
- It may be a story with a positive or a negative outcome.
- It should clearly bring out a moral. If it is positive, the candidate must show the value of
the friendship. If it is negative, it must show the consequences of the friendship.

2. Compulsory Text

Introduction:

The things that happened to us in the past may serve as an inspiration to improve governance in
our countries as Prof. Kimani joins Path Alpha an economic strategy by AGDA.

Points of Interpretation

i) Character
ii) Experiences/disappointment(s)
iii) The change/fight for change
iv) Outcome
Introduction:
The things that happened to us in the past may serve as an inspiration to improve governance
in our countries as Prof. Kimani joins Path Alpha an economic strategy by AGDA to
champion for the respect of teachers.

Ci. Prof. Kimani agrees to work with AGDA after loosing his wife and daughter and being
demoted from a full professor to a senior lecturer by his university. His daughter Tuni dies in
a road accident involving a minibus and a truck trailer. He was inconsolable, according to
Asiya, Tuni wouldn’t have died had he had a car, Asiya later decides to leave him after thirty
years of marriage and marries Walomu an MP. He tries to persuade her to stay but she only
mocks him for being poor. She had challenged him to change careers and be rich using Mp
walomu as an example of those whom left teaching and went to greener pastures to become
an MP with four cars. Kimani is hurt and hew confronts Walomu and they fight.The police
stops them and he is arrested and jailed for six months. He is also demoted by his University
as a full professor to his beginning rank as a senior lecturer. Tad approaches him to join
AGDA, he is adamant at first but considering his past pain of loosing his wife and daughter
and the humiliation by the government as a teacher, he opts to change career and join Path
Alpha, while at the summit he informs the leaders that teachers need to be respected and that
Path Alpha will ensure that.

Cii. Comrade Melusi is thrown out of the government by the new Zimbabwean ruler and his
wife is killed by the ruler’s regime. He says h fought for independence of the Zimbabwe only
for the new ruler to treat him as an opponent when they formed the new government. The
new ruler discovered that he was a Ndebele and he, a Shona and failed to appoint him to the
cabinet. He also fired another Ndebele leader and it sparked rage among the Ndebele who
attacked every government supporter. The government retaliate by sending the fifth brigade-
Gukurahundi who killed the Ndebele and his wife Ziliza. The death of his wife tormnets
Melusi and he cries as he shares this to Tad Longway. Tad after listening to Melusi’s
tribulations offers him help by urging him to join AGDA and champion for Path Alpha
which seeks to mobilize civic discontent in Africa into will to,change. He accepts to work
with him and while at the summit he tries to attack his leader after failing to speak to them,
he meant to avenge his wife, ziliza.

Ciii. Pastor Chiamaka’s arrest sees him join Path Alpha to fight for change. Before becoming
a pastor, he was a reckless driver. A bad accident involving his Mercedes and a fire truck
made him turn to Christ after he survived. He later becomes a pastor at his Church Inside
Africa-CIA. In one of his sermons, he criticizes the Nigerian president for being indecisive
and indifferent. He mocked him as a person who talks about a problem without giving
solution as there were city fires, violence but nothing substantive came from the president to
solve the problems. He urges his congregants to be courageous. This sermon has him
arrested. He spends two weeks in a rat infested cell with smelly inmates before being
released. He is banned from preaching. When he meets Tad who brings him the good news of
change in Africa, he signed on the movement to push for Path Alpha. At the summit, he
prays for its success.

Civ. Engineer Tahir’s betrayal by their leader makes him join AGDA. He had been
interested in weapons development, he studied it the University of Paris.He returns to his
country, Libya and shows support to the Libyan leader even when others felt he would join
them in asking him to step down. To him, the leader had the right vision for Libya and so
was the right person to rule it. The Libyan leader launched a programme named the ‘Fist of
Allah’ as a warning to all that might have thought it just another human effort. He hopes to
use skills he had acquired to build real weapons for Libya, but after the Al Qaeda attack on
Americans the Libyan leader dismantled the programme fearing the Americans will soon
retaliate and not necessarily within the bounds of reason he becomes angry upon learning this
and hates the man.This coincides with the loosing of his eye after Rahma had slit it following
his slapping of her after she had rejected his request for a date. When Tad Longway informs
him of AGDA’S agenda to bring change in Africa he readily joins Path Alpha and at the
summit he tells the heads of state to adopt Path Alpha as it will give Africa its own modern
weapons.He is optimistic that the weapons will deter any threat and also defend Africans.

Conclusion.
 In conclusion, setbacks in life triggers Prof. Kimani, Pastor Chiamaka, Comrade Melusi and
Engineer Tahir to push forward toward a new direction.

i) Engineer Tahir’s betrayal by their leader makes him join AGDA. He had been intrested in
weapons development…………… he becomes angry upon learning of the dismantling of the Fist
of Allah he readily joins path alpha and at the summit he tells the heads of state to adopt Path
Alpha as it will give Africa its own modern weapons.

Prof. Kimani agrees to work with AGDA after losing his wife and daughter and the demotion
from a full professor to a senior lecturer by his university………….. considering his past pain of
losing his wife and daughter and the humiliation by the government he opts to change career and
join Path Alpha, while at the summit he informs the leaders that teachers need to be respected
and that Path Alpha will ensure that.

Pastor Chiamaka’s arrest sees him join Path Alpha to fight for change. …………………. when
he meets Tad who brings him the good news of change in Africa, he signed on the movement to
push for Path Alpha. At the summit, he prays for its success.

Comrade Melusi is thrown out of the government by the new Zimbabwean ruler and his wife is
killed by the ruler’s regime. ………. he accepts to join Path Alpha and while at the summit he
tries to attack his leader after failing to speak to them, he meant to avenge his wife.

3. Optional Set text

Points of interpretation

 The character who shows December Love

 What they do to her (episodes)
 The sacrifice
  Effect on December

Points of discussion

Li September shows self-sacrificing love to December – Buying chips

Lii September shows self-sacrificing love to December – The visit to hospital

Liii September shows self-sacrificing love to December – The gifts

Liv Grandfather shows self-sacrificing love to December – takes her to hospital

Those who are mentally ill are most of the times starved love. When a kind soul shows up to
sacrifice and love them unconditionally, it goes a long way in making their journey to recovery
easy and bearable. In the story, “December” by Filemon Liyambo, December gets this kind of
love from her grandfather and brother, September.

September shows his sister December a rare selflessness love when he buys her chips. On his
way to the hospital, September passes by KFC to buy his sister a packet of chips. This is a
favourite snack for December. December loved “soft” and September samples them to ensure
they were soft, “Just like his sister preferred them. He even goes further to get an extra satchet of
tomato sauce, for the pleasure of his sister. (p. 84-5) His sacrifice comes out when he puts a
brave face to the attendants condescending attitude when she loudly remarks, “Only chips” and
“Who came to KFC to order chips?” and the inevitable contemptuous treatment of foreigners to
this town by the locals. Further, eventhough the attendant’s sneering look reminds September
“…of the way his grandfather looked at him over his glasses…whenever he sensed what he
called “traces of idiotism” in his garn son.” (p.84), he braves all this to buy his dear sister her
favourite chips. When handed the packet of chips, the sister eats them with a lot of satisfaction.
She remarks, “These are nice…” as she rubs the tomato sauce off her lips. (p. 89)

September shows his sister December a rare selflessness love when he pays her a visit at the
hospital. Three days after arriving from the UK to attend his grandfather’s funeral, he ensures
that he visits her at the psychiatric ward. (There are other visits made prior to this and its said
that, “Their visits followed the same pattern: he would bring food – beef or mutton, never
chicken”). This is a great sacrifice ion his part because of the prevailing circumstances. He is in
mourning after the death of the grandfather, the grandfather had forgotten to list his name as a
brother to December, a fact that leads to his humiliation by the ward nurse who calls security on
him. The nurse remarks, “There is no brother listed in her file…only a grandfather.” (p. 88).
Further, the nurse orders him to open his bag, goes through his items and suspiciously looks at
him, “…eyes flitting back and forth” and asks him embarrassing questions. On seeing him the
sister is so delighted. She can’t hide her excitement. She remarks, “Ka Brother (little brother)”
(p. 88)

September shows his sister December a rare selflessness love when he buys her different gifts
that directly touch her heart. When he is finally allowed to see her sister, he brings out of his bag
a number of gifts that touch his sisters heat as they are of great significance to December. These
gifts are: a jersey with a grey hoodie and logo (this could very handy for the cold in this place), a
pen and a book full of puzzles (a game the two relished and that brought them both mutual fond
memories) and a simple, navy blue T-shirt that had the Union Jack on it (this is exactly as the
one she had received from missionaries but had had to rip it up to stem his bleeding during the
accident in the shamba). (p. 88-9) To deliver these gifts, September must have incurred a cost,
suffered humiliating interrogation from the nurse and risked being arrested after the nurse called
security on him. On seeing all these gifts, December is so happy and forgets where she is. She
excitedly shaows the gifts to the nurse. “Look what my brother got me.” (p.89)

The grandfather also shows December rare selflessness in the various instances. When December
start to drift into lunacy, the grandfather because of his great love for December, for a moment
lives in denial. He initially thinks it’s his son’s idiocy that is rearing its head in his favourite
granddaughter. However, as days goes on, this turns into great concern and he can only belief
that his favourite granddaughter has been bewitched. “To Ezekiel, Decembers’ descent from
being a stellar student to a psychiatric patient was too abrupt…when she was too close to
success.” (p. 86) Out of love, he bans her from eating chicken, takes her to hospital where he
puts it down that he is the only one to visit her and without fail visits her regularly until his
untimely death. His sacrifice comes in all that he does and the declaration at the hospital. When
he fails to show up on many days, even a sick December can realize it. She comments, “Tatekulu
hasn’t been here in a while.” (p. 89)