Archit Raichura Martin English 9H October 11, 2016 A Change in Perception In “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, Lizabeth’s attack on the marigolds causes her to completely rethink her perception of Miss Lottie. For example, when the children begin to throw pebbles at Miss Lottie and her marigolds, they “[laugh] wildly and senselessly at Miss Lottie’s impotent rage. She [shakes] her stick at [them]” (34).
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum- Katherine Paterson The novel The Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson is a story a sef boy named Muna who runs away from his manor to the capital city of 12th century feudal Japan, Kyoto, in search of his samurai father. I will discuss the primes of social structure and politics. Katherine Paterson’s The Sign of the Chrysanthemum accurately portrays the Heiji Disturbance and the status of craftsmen and ronins.
The story was happened in 1906, at Oklahoma territory, near Tulsa. Oklahoma! was adapted from a play called Green Grow the Lilacs which was adapted from an old folksong called “Green Grow the Lilacs”. The story is about an American soldier’s love for a Mexican lass(senorita). The cowboys in south Texas loved sing the song and white Americans became known as “Gringo” by the Mexicans. Richard Charles Rogers was an American composer of music with more than 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals.
This takes place in Flowerlandia in the year of 3020. Princess Rose of Flowerlandia is always seeking for adventure and Jasper captures her while she is on one. Jasper is a villain who lives in Evil Tower which is where he takes the princess after he captures her. He is very unhappy and wants to destroy Flowerlandia so he can build Evil Town on its land. Now it 's up to Prince Carter of Candyville to save Princess Rose because he needs a princess to marry.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah portrays the life of a women named Ifemelu as she deals with what it means to be “Americanah.” Through Adichie’s writing several reoccurring themes are evident. She analyzes race and racism in America, as well as Nigeria, while also exploring identity, romantic love, separation and connection, and cultural criticism. Throughout the novel Ifemelu suffers a sever identity crisis within herself. She is unsure of who she is, and what she is.
In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book, Purple Hibiscus, Adiche shows the effects of colonialism in a patriarchal society. This book was set in the 1990s from the perspective of 15-year old Kambili Achike. She lives as part of the Igbo tribe in colonialist Nigeria. Kambili lives with her abusive father, Eugene, submissive mother, Beatrice, and headstrong brother, Jaja. Throughout the book, we meet her Aunt Ifeoma, who is the mother of Amaka, Obiora and Chima.
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a book based up on pre-colonial Nigeria back in the 1890s and it focuses on on traditional society’s and colonialism. The author presents the book Things Fall Apart through the eyes of the main character Okonkwo who was a respected elder in the village. Women in the book were all housewives and they were shown as weak, and as second class citizens of the Umuofian society. The roles of women in the Umuofia society is presented through several events that happened in in the village of Umuofia.
In Adichie’s story, the women are meant to be the embodiment of societal ideals, expected to follow the rules that society has set. Comparing Chikwado and the narrator, it becomes evident that Chikwado is the foil. She sees the narrator as “an irresponsible, vaguely foreign teen-ager.” The narrator, on the other hand, sees her as “full of simplified certainties” (Adichie). The narrator is the oddity, behaviorally and inwardly.
In the short story ‘growing my hair again’, the author explains how women in the African traditions are held captive by the traditional culture and their struggles to trying to break away them using the main character Nneka. In Nigeria as well as in the other parts of Africa, culture was and still is given a lot of emphasizes especially when it comes to the traditional practices and beliefs. The culture however vary from one community to the other and ranges from the rights of passage, religious beliefs to other religious practices such as offering sacrifices and the role of women in the community .Nneka was married to a rich man in traditional Nigerian community and as in other areas, women had a role of being submissive to their husbands and subject to other cruel traditions. This traditions literary took their freedoms to make decisions or put strict boundaries to their extent of interacting with other people. When Nnekas husband died, she was required to shave her hair as a sign of mourning.
Purple Hibiscus is about understanding the ways in which she can use what she already has for her own strength. A defining moment for Jaja is when Papa goads him that, “‘you must eat with us this evening, do you hear me?” But Jaja did not come out of his room. The most significant part of this passage is the way Jaja ignores his father’s actively: choosing not just to refuse dinner with the family, but also provide no clear explanation for doing so. Papa now finds himself in silence.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s coming-of-age novel Purple Hibiscus narrates the story of Kambili, a girl in Nigeria, who deals with religious hypocrisy and abuse of her father, a product of the British colonization. She and her brother, Jaja, visit their aunt and receive a different perspective on their family’s lives. This novel takes place in the Igbo region of Nigeria, after the Nigerian Civil War that ended in 1970 and colonialism of the 1900’s. In Purple Hibiscus, Adichie conveys her views of the Nigerian Civil War to the reader by using the setting, specific events reciprocated in history, and contrasting characters within the novel. Purple Hibiscus is set in post-colonial Nigeria- where incidentally Adichie grew up- in a time of government, economic, and social struggle, after the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War.
longer followed by feelings of guilt that papa’s moralistic Christian worldview provoked in her earlier. Even though his teenage romance does not end happily from kambili’s viewpoint, her relationship with father Amadi is a strongly empowering one: not only does it allow her to find her sexual identity, but it also allows her to find a more tolerant and liberal interpretation, of religiousness and, above all, the courage of questioning. Later, father Amadi, with his tender and supportive attitude, becomes a new masculine authority for kambili, who believes that “his word is true” (302). Kambili’s admiration of father Amadi signals yet again her desperate need for a father figure. While the focus is Purple Hibiscus is admittedly the national, the transnational dimension represents an important narrative bypath.
Government Arts College for Women, Thanjavur. Abstract: Identity crisis or search of identity has received an impetus in the Post-Colonial literature. Man is known as a social animal which needs some home, love of parents and friends and relatives. But when he is unhoused, he loses the sense of belongingness and thus suffers from a sense of insecurity or identity crisis. In the field of Indian English Literature, feminist or woman centered approach is the major development that deals with the experience and situation of women from the feminist consciousness.
Feminist Theory In Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, they recognize the life of the Igbos which are a tribe in the village of Umuofia during European colonization. There are many topics brought up in this book like the effects of colonization, culture and tradition, religion, race, etc. It is relatively easy to read “Things Fall Apart” as an anti-feminist text due to the face that the Igbo clan’s customs and traditions seem to side towards masculine features, such as power and strength. The novel is told through a male protagonist’s point of view in nineteenth century Nigeria, while women there do not have much rights, they do wield heavy influence over the leaders of the clan.
The state or plight of women would be analyzed through the help of three films, ‘Dry’, ‘B for Boy’, and ‘Wives on Strike’. An analysis of these movies would be done to reflect on the plight of women in the Nigerian society. Due to lack of time and insufficient funds this research would be limited in its research methodology. An experiment to test the outcome of this survey would have been ideal, but the researcher was limited by funds and time.
