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The Thing around your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

Literary Aspects

  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
  • Foreshadowing
  • Flashbacks
  • Code-Switching
  • 2nd Person

Tomorrow Is Too Far

The Danger of a Single Story

  • What does this title make you think of?
  • Do you think it's a happy story?
  • Why do you think tomorrow is too far?

What do you notice in all of these excerpts? And how does it affect you?

What do you think of the girl?

Summary:

A girl returns for the first time in 18 years to Nigeria for her grandmothers funeral. While there she recalls how she instigated her brothers death for her and her cousin's benefit. She recalls that summer with vivid clarity and remembers how this caused her parents divorce, her not being able to see her grandmother, cousin or father anymore and her mother's distance after her brother Nonso's death.

  • Do you think it's possible to love someone and hate someone at the same time?
  • Who do you think this applies to?

A Private Experience - Discussion Topics

  • White Lie:
  • What is a white lie? Is a white lie ever acceptable? Do you think a white lie is good or bad? Do you think that what Chika did was right?
  • Stereotypes:
  • How do we stereotype? Is this a bad thing?

The Thing around your Neck

"Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States." - Book Browse

"Cell One"

"Imitation"

"A Private Experience"

"Ghosts"

"On Monday of Last Week"

"Jumping Monkey Hill"

"The Thing Around Your Neck"

"The American Embassy"

"The Shivering"

"The Arrangers of Marriage"

"Tomorrow Is Too Far"

"The Headstrong Historian"

  • Collection of short stories
  • Protagonists: women
  • Setting: Africa/America
  • Realistic
  • Both good & bad equally displayed

A Private Experience

  • What does "A Private Experience" make you think of?
  • What do you consider being private?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

Differences:

  • Chika / Hausa Woman...
  • Igbo / Hausa
  • Christian / Muslim
  • Well off / Poor
  • Academically Intelligent / Street Smart
  • Daughter - Sister / Mother

  • little figurative language
  • flashbacks
  • flashforwards

Literary Aspects:

  • Born: 15th September 1977
  • Igbo from Nigeria
  • Writer (& Lecturer)
  • Multiple Awards won

A well-off medical student named Chika takes refuge with a poor Hausa woman during a riot.

The two women seemingly have nothing in common, apart from the current situation that they are thrown in.

Summary:

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