ENG272H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Americanah, Granola, Ice Cream Van
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Claims the independence of biafra as brave and fool hearted. We don"t truly know what achebe is trying to exemplify. The poem has three speakers with its three stanzas. Achebe recently died and is quoted by saying that adichie was fearless . Americanah is not her first work, is actually her third. Igbo people have pieces of wisdom that are passed down from past generations: whenever something stands, something else will stand beside you . Every person has an opinion and the differences are good. Adichie says there is a danger of telling a single story. The novel starts off with a single hot room filled with a bunch of different opinions: broch talks about how art propagates a single message. Only read british children"s stories when she was young with certain tropes (like the sun, snow etc. ) but you realize this gets woven into the fabric of your reality: the stories shape our growth.