Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Thing
Aroun
d Your
Neck
A private Experience
Ghosts
Jumping Monkey Hill
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Shivering
The Arrangers of Marriage
6. At night something would wrap itself around your neck, something that
very nearly choked you before you fell asleep. What restricts Adichies
characters?
7. The Thing Around Your Neck shows that despite education and
achievements, Nigerian women are still limited by their gender. Discuss.
You have a certain perception of people before even getting to know them
How does what Adichie is saying in this TED talk connect with the
stories we have read so far?
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A lot of the stories express the same themes, eating mangoes and
describing the weather ( the summer in Tomorrow is Too Far)
The families in the stories are middle class
Aspects of Western literature is incorporated into the stories
What to Annotate
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Key concerns
Setting
Characters/Character relationships
Cell One
Adichie builds suspense in the story as she creates a sense of fear from
the words Cell One from the beginning, this keeps the reader intrigued
for the duration of the story
The narrator who is the sister is unnamed for the entire story
It surprised me, this little victory Sister
What emotion most clearly dominated the main character
If they do not find the person they are looking for, they will lock up his
father or his mother or his relative Mother
Connection to Tomorrow is Too Far
Literary Devices
I didnt care. I didnt shut up. So they pulled me out and beat me and
took me to Cell One
I saw my brothers eyes fill with tears my worldly brother and I felt a
tenderness for him that I could not have explained had I been asked to
Hints in the short story that the characters in the novel had been
westernized, from the colonisation. Subtle hints that corruption in the
community had commenced as a result of colonisation
Use of Igbo (Language)
Nnamabias father feels helpless
Nnamabias mothers values are skewed, likes to avoid the conflict of
issues
A Private Experience
This story contrasts the others within the anthology as it portrays two
women together finally comfortable enough to share their lives, succusses
and fears.
Shows a different perspective rather than women just subjected to their
home life and families
One woman is Christian and the other is Muslim, yet it shows that the
women arent the ones igniting the conflict
Also portrays their lack of agency, as women they have obviously been
forced into this situation that neither had control over.
She is thinking of her necklace, plastic beads threaded on a piece of
string
Ghosts Ghosts may be symbolic of the fact that those that speak Igbo believe
that the supernatural exist, that ancestors will watch over
Narrated by a man well educated
I am supposed to have armed myself with enough science to laugh
indulgently at the ways of my people
Inclusive words such as our show that he views his wife on the same
level as himself
The education minister stole all the money