A Private Experience Adichie Analysis

Adichie in “A Private Experience” uses syntax, diction… to show that Chika the main character was scared when the riot suddenly breaks out. Chika and her sister were shopping and were separated when the riot...“Chika smelled the sweat and fear and she ran, too,across wide streets, into this narrow one, which she feared--felt--was dangerous, until she saw the woman” (45). Adichie uses the smell sense to indicate that people are scared, “Chika smelled the sweat and fear”. The dashes slow things down, to make the scene more dramatic. By placing a run on sentence in this scene it makes it more chaotic and shows the rush of things around Chika. By using words like sweat, fear, dangerous it adds more emotions to the scene to make be more powerful.