Essays on The Thing Around Your Neck

"The Thing Around Your Neck" is a short story in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author, presents two characters, Akunna, the main character in the story and Akunna's boyfriend, also known as The boy in the story. Akunna wins the "American visa lottery" and gets a green card to go live in America. She is an independent woman who went to community college but later drops out due to financial problems. The boy is a rich and wealthy person that pursues Akunna at her job. The boy loves to ...

In the postcolonial texts, identity is an important term, especially regarding some key concepts, such as immigration or enslavement, since experiencing these terms might create a great deal of change in one'`s identity depending on the environment toof which they become a part. This change might occur in a negative way and cause individuals to isolate themselves from what is around them, which can be defined as alienation. The term aAlienation, as put forward by Jaeggi, in a broadly sense ...

In The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie there are two very different short stories touching beautifully on the views of Nigerian post-colonization homosexuality. In one story, “On Monday of Last Week” the reader sees an ongoing and subtle curiosity between characters of the same sex, and in the other story, “The Shivering”, homosexuality is present in a very strong and open matter after the reader experiences a type of reveal of character. While the history and stance on ...

Made a clearer thesis statement. Changed and omitted a few examples Tried to make a more logical transition between the two part of the argument. Interiority and mobility are characterized as the key features of the “modern” youth in various Bildungsroman works as discussed by Moretti in “The Bildungsroman as a Symbolic Form”. In his work, he has also stated:“(...)the selfsame process gives rise to unexpected hope, thereby generating an interiority not only fuller than before but also (...) ...

"Jumping Monkey Hill" is a short story included in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck. In the story, a group of writers from different parts of Africa gathers for a two-week workshop at Jumping Monkey Hill, a resort outside Cape Town. The participants write a story during the first week and review their work during the second. The workshop is organized by a white, British man named Edward Campbell, who attempts to mold the writers into his vision of what an African writer ...

"Jumping Monkey Hill" from "The Thing Around Your Neck" is a short story published in 2009, written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The story revolves around the ideas of how Africans are perceived by Europeans. Adichie narrates the anecdotal encounters of African scholars at a writer's workshop. The writer's workshop happens at a resort in South Africa called "Jumping Monkey Hill". Besides the namesake of the retreat and short story, 'Jumping Monkey Hill' uncovers the generalizations that depict ...