Personification in selected Rukiga fables

Abstract

This oral literature research project looks at analyzing and examining personification in selected Rukiga fables and its main purpose is to focus on the reality that is portrayed in fables to bring about the characters of human beings. Therefore, its overall goal is to analyze the characterization and characters of different human behaviors in society which are clearly portrayed by the animals, objects in the stories. These fables teach good morals and lessons to the attended audience. The reason why I chose this topic of the study is that many people especially the young, youth and the old undermine and give them less attention to their functions. This category of group only observes fables as a source of entertainment and funny without giving great attention to the message they carry as a way of communication, for example, through fables, one gets to know and understand different ways how people behave in the community, this teaches them on how to handle and prevent themselves from getting affected by the ways of such persons with undesirable acts. I carried out this research study from Kabale district, Kabale Municipality, Karubanda Parish, kabahangara village where I met many Bakiga people, who some are my relations. I analyzed data manually and that basically entailed analyzing the characterization, human behaviors and lessons in the selected Rukiga fables. My final judgment about the Rukiga fables was that, they bring to light all the undesirable behaviors that people should be aware of and which the community must know that will help to avoid false accusation of innocent people thus exposing the truth about each and every person.