Pr sentation engelsk the thing around your neck
Because she ‘gives up’ nothing, she loses all and ends up in Connecticut, as a waitress with small pay, struggling to pay her rent and send some money back home. She doesn’t write home; for how would she explain the lack of gifts she had promised all her relatives back home?
She’s sad and alone, and every night before she sleeps something around her neck nearly chokes her.
1: How is America portrayed in the text?
Fundamental US … hard word and wealth
Freedom and oppertuneties
Culture differences: Competition
Individualism
2: Why is the boyfriend referred to as ”he” ?
To create a distance
The meaning of the text is more important thatn the story (the name is more important that the actual names
To let the reader use his/her own imagination 3: What is the purpose of the 2nd person narrative?
A part of the script
Closeness/intemacy
Involvement
A 2. person narrator in the story
4: What does the name
Akunna mean literally and metaphorically? Literally
- father’s wealth
Metaphorically:
Good relationship (about chanching and accepting special relationship to he fater , hwo dies and she isvery sad after not being there for her famely)
5: Comment on the use of the words condescending and condescension Condescending:
Condescension:
Negative words
6: Is the text more about social gaps or social inheritance than about culture meetings or clashes
Boath
culture meating in the begining
Rich vs poor, social gab – eg gifts
7: why Akunna feels worlds apart from her boyfriend?
Does she feel she feel the same way about her ? xx She covers many issues that do with ordinary life like marriages and mistresses, love, relationships, betrayal, teenage crime and the cult activities in Nigerian
Universities; lack of pension payments for retired civil servants, religious riots in
Northern Nigeria, sibling rivalry and death; and a new bride’s experience in an arranged marriage in a foreign country.
Some of the events that are created within the stories are coined around
She’s sad and alone, and every night before she sleeps something around her neck nearly chokes her.
1: How is America portrayed in the text?
Fundamental US … hard word and wealth
Freedom and oppertuneties
Culture differences: Competition
Individualism
2: Why is the boyfriend referred to as ”he” ?
To create a distance
The meaning of the text is more important thatn the story (the name is more important that the actual names
To let the reader use his/her own imagination 3: What is the purpose of the 2nd person narrative?
A part of the script
Closeness/intemacy
Involvement
A 2. person narrator in the story
4: What does the name
Akunna mean literally and metaphorically? Literally
- father’s wealth
Metaphorically:
Good relationship (about chanching and accepting special relationship to he fater , hwo dies and she isvery sad after not being there for her famely)
5: Comment on the use of the words condescending and condescension Condescending:
Condescension:
Negative words
6: Is the text more about social gaps or social inheritance than about culture meetings or clashes
Boath
culture meating in the begining
Rich vs poor, social gab – eg gifts
7: why Akunna feels worlds apart from her boyfriend?
Does she feel she feel the same way about her ? xx She covers many issues that do with ordinary life like marriages and mistresses, love, relationships, betrayal, teenage crime and the cult activities in Nigerian
Universities; lack of pension payments for retired civil servants, religious riots in
Northern Nigeria, sibling rivalry and death; and a new bride’s experience in an arranged marriage in a foreign country.
Some of the events that are created within the stories are coined around