Essays on The Thing Around Your Neck

“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…

“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…

“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…

Introduction 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…

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…

The Thing Around Your Neck: Taboo to Who? 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…