Blog Post 9: Links between Chimamanda Adichie's stories

·      All four of Chimamanda Adichie’s stories were so captivating. Adichie has such incredible stories to tell and tells each one of them with a creative voice. The story that stood out the most among the ones that we were assigned to read was Ghost. Cell one, The Thing Around your Neck, and Tomorrow is Too Far seem separate from Ghost due to distinctive the old male narration in Ghost. Although, the stories all share Nigerian protagonists. Also, the idea of death is something spoken about throughout all 4 stories that we read. Not only is death a consistent idea through Adichie’s works, but also she seems to have her characters handle death in a similar way. For the most part the characters tend to ignore the

deaths happening in the stories and move on. In Things fall apart it seemed almost as if it was a ritual that they moved on and keep the dead unspoken. In Ghost, two children are lost due to the Civil War and the protagonist of the novel does not seem to be very affected by this loss. What is Adichie’s reasoning for handling death in this way? I think this is a interesting question to look at and something I would like to look into more. Does it have to do with her own family background? It appears that Adichie passionately draws a lot from her childhood in her writing, so this could be why she handles death in a certain way. Possibly it has something to do with the way that death is dealt with in Nigeria.

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