The Thing Around Your Neck Essay Examples

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigeria

first published in April 2009

Exploring the lives of Nigerians both at home in problematic – and sometimes life-threatening – post-colonial settings and, discomfortingly, as ''green card'' immigrants to the United States.

"Cell One", "Imitation", "A Private Experience", "Ghosts", "On Monday of Last Week", "Jumping Monkey Hill", "The Thing Around Your Neck", "The American Embassy", "The Shivering", "The Arrangers of Marriage", "Tomorrow Is Too Far" , "The Headstrong Historian".

Connection, materialism, social opinion, independence, identity, loneliness and racism.