... Some people have the choice to transform their lives: TTAYN: does she stay or go at the end? Inevitability TAOM: Her choice would have been to go to university but her fate was to be married off and sent to America Even if lives are transformed, they aren’t always what they were longing for/unmet expectation THH: Nwamgba wants her son to be educated so that he can reclaim what is rightfully theirs but instead Anikwenwa ends up relinquishing and rejecting the culture, etc. TAOM: The promise of the American Dream goes unfulfilled and then she is obligated to stay (so as to not disappoint, etc) Some characters do not seek or want change but it happens anyway | Inevitability (no choice in whether change or life is transformed?) TAE: Ugonna’s mother’s life is changed through no choice of her own; walks out on the possibility of change (i.e. she leaves the embassy and sacrifices her chance to be safe from the violence) Ghosts: James Nwoye’s wife has died; one daughter is in America; however, he chooses to stay there – even though he is not paid his pension; he rejects the sterile nature of America. TITF: the family experiences The desire to transform one’s life is also evident through the secondary characters • Such as… TAOM ⇒ her family (want her to marry/arrange the marriage) “guinea fowl’s egg” – even though they don’t know what America is really like, this is how they perceive America. • TTAYN ⇒ thought everyone had a car, a gun, etc. Characters who...
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