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十 'The Thing Around your Neck' is the title story on the short story collection. The story is aimed to portray the narrators journey in her experience ...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie By Dylan Bruce, Nathan McCarter Samin Thapa
ò Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie better known as Adichie is a Nigerian born Novelist/Nonfiction and Short Story Writer. Born in 1977 in the city of Enugu, Nigeria. Adichie was the fifth out of six children in her family. She grew up in a Igbo family at the town called nsukka in South east Nigeria. Her father James Nwoye Adichie was a professor of statistics at the university of Nigeria and her mother Grace Ifema was the first female registrar at the same university. In Her early life, Adichie studied medicine in the university of Nigeria for a year and a half before moving to America at the age of 19, where she completed a Masters in Creative writing at John Hopkins University. She also attended several other universities which she features in her stories. She has won several awards/prizes for her Novel/Short stories. She has been called ‘ the most prominent’ of a procession of critically acclaimed young Anglophone authors who is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature. She now divides her time between Nigeria and America where she teaches writing workshops.
ò Abuse Of Power ò Abuse Of Women ò Injustice ò Immigration & Adaption ò Personal Growth/ Maturity ò Violence & Corruption ò Family ò Relationships ò Belonging/Alienation
ò “…your fortune cookie had two strips of paper. Both of them were blank” pg 121 ò It was a potential positive because it provided her with the chance to create her own opportunity’s in America
ò Throughout most of the story, the characters have wide range of choice and free will which is shown in how Akunna was able to leave her uncle’s house when she felt threatened being there. She was also able to get a job at a restaurant very easily.