Social Classes
What class does the character Akunna belong to ?
What is Lower Class?
What ingredient does Ukamaka cook with that she is not a fan of, but her husband enjoys?
What are hot peppers?
Name a story from The Thing Around Your Neck in which a character questions what it means to be African.
What are any of the story names?
In “On Monday of Last Week” what occupation does Kamara accept due to a lack of opportunity in the ‘Great America?’
What is a Nanny?
“You thought everybody in America had a car and a gun; your uncles and aunts and cousins thought so, too.”What is this an example of?
The Immigrant Experience; Misinterpretation of the American Dream
What class and story does the character Chika originate from?
What is the Socioeconomic Class and A Private Experience?
What is the author's purpose in keeping the ‘Cell One’ and ‘Tomorrow’ narrators' names unknown?
To further emphasize their lack of importance in comparison to their male characters.
Throughout the book there are many instances in stories of non-African characters questioning and challenging the lifestyles of Africans. Edward, a British man in ‘Jumping Monkey Hill’ posing as an expert in African cultures even said that they ate this exotic animal.
What is the ostrich?
Which male character(s) faced the tough realities of moving to America not panning out to be all that they had sought?
Who are Ofodile and/or Tobechi?
What does Akunna’s name mean? Hint: It represents servitude of a male relative yet again.
What is Father’s Wealth?
What is the significance behind the title ‘The Thing Around Your Neck?’
What is the ‘thing’ is a metaphor for anxiety nearly choking you causing troubled speech.
In the book the women are used and degraded to the status of items at the beck and call of the men. What is this called?
What is Objectification?
Which character told Grace she could not refer to the call-and-response her grandmother had taught her as poetry because primitive tribes did not have poetry?
Who is Sister Maureen?
What is the story from The Thing Around Your Neck centered around a character that migrated to the US to stay with her uncle and his family?
What is The Thing Around Your Neck?
The character Edward from Jumping Monkey Hill uses this construct over his African and female employees to get away with his sexism and prejudices.
What is a Power Construct?
What is used to determine a person’s class level?
What are property, income, job, education, etc.
In Cell One the narrator is walking in the market with her mother and brother Nnambia when a lady calls out “Hey! Madam, why did you waste your fair skin on a boy and leave the girl so dark? What is a boy doing with all this beauty?” as people often do. What did the lady use the narrator as?
What is an object of comparison to the male ? Or similar answer
This character has a personality revelation in which he challenges his Nigerian cultures due to his new Western knowledge.
Who is Professor Nwoye?
What unrealistic expectations did the character Akunna have in regards to her new American life?
What is having a big house and car ?
The narrators in The Thing Around Your Neck feel trapped by...
What is Sexism, Anxiety, Gender Roles, Culture, etc.
In ‘A Private Experience’ the character Chika gets stuck in a riot in a different part of Africa from where she typically resides, but chooses to remain unfazed practicing this theory, that puts her mind back in upper class status in Lagos.
What is Dissociation Theory?
In the book the husbands cheat and practice infidelity with the wife's knowledge of this. Why is it that the wives allow this to happen? What are they?
What is: First answer may vary but should mention dependence and lead into second answer of submissiveness ?
Adichie draws contrast between the American and African cultures and practices in many parts of the book. Name one example.
First group to name example gets it
In The Thing Around Your Neck, similar to in real life there were many instances of characters migrating solely based on the belief that they can attain their own version of success in a new society in which upward mobility is possible for everyone. What is the name for this belief?
What is The American Dream?
What cultural conflict does Akunna face throughout the story ?
What is Nigerian culture v.s American culture ?