YWCA Indianapolis P.O. Box 40264 Indianapolis, IN 46240 T: 317-250-8593 EM: ywcaindy@sbcglobal.net www.ywcaindy.org Questions for “The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cell One 1. What were your thoughts on this first story about the spoiled boy, Nnamabia who stole from neighbors and his own family and always got himself out of whatever jam he was in? 2. Why do you think his family let him get away with such actions for so long? Could you tell they treated boys differently
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VATE INSIDE STORIES 2014—MABO INSIDE STORIES MABO Film directed by Rachel Perkins Teaching notes prepared by Sarah Catton Edited by Marion White CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................3 WAYS INTO THE TEXT ..............................................................................................6 RUNNING SHEET AND STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT...............................................8
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Hello my name is Linh. Today I will talk about the stinging problem in the world and that is what you are thinking in your mind now – asylum seekers. I will start to discuss about this topic by asking you a question! Do you ever think that the Australian Government should change a way they process and treat the asylum seekers who arrive by boat? With my own opinion. I think they should do it! (change the slide) When we were born, no one could choice the destinies or what will happen to us in the
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The Thing Around Your Neck In C.N. Adichie’s anthology The “Thing Around Your Neck” is one of Adichie’s most powerful stories in her anthology, by Dr Jennifer Minter (English Works) The “thing around your neck” becomes a powerful symbol of the narrator’s feelings of anxiety in the new country. As Adichie points out, the story of migration is often one of exploitation (take advantage of someone) and impotence (powerlessness) for many Nigerian women. (They suffer also under the burden of stereotypes
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ENG12D: The characters in these stories long for their lives to be transformed. Discuss. Long: hope, desire, crave, wish, yearn Transformed: changed, altered, new, varied, reconstruct, modified, shifted…? 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
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Tomorrow Is Too Far VATE Inside Stories 2014 This is the other story in the collection, which is told in the second person and it is considered the more powerful one by many reviewers. This story looks back eighteen years to an incident in the narrator’s childhood, one which has had a major impact on her whole life. The narrator reflects on the last summer before everything changed – her parents divorced, she never returned to Nigeria or saw her father’s family again. The memory begins eighteen
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VATE INSIDE STORIES 2014—THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK Inside Stories The Thing Around Your Neck By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Teaching notes prepared by Yasmine McCafferty Edited by Tony Thompson CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................3 WAYS INTO THE TEXT ..............................................................................................5 RUNNING SHEET AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT
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or forced upon an individual. The places you travel and the people you meet can emotionally revolutionize a self-discovery through unexpected but anticipated terms evoked from curiosity. ‘Swallow The Air’ written by Tara June Winch and ‘The Thing Around Your Neck’ written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie break the inhibitions of vulnerability, as their ideas represented through cultural contexts and values, lead to an overall self-discovery. Tara June Winch’s ‘Swallow The Air’, explores the idea of
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flammable whereas helium is an inert gas. Moreover Helium is easy to obtain and you do not need any special permits if you decide to start transporting several tanks of it around in your truck. Can be obtained from party stores/ welding supply stores The obvious issue is to link the small regulator’s mouth to the 3 cm wide balloon’s neck. You need to build the joint/adaptor yourself. You need: * A plastic tube (3 to 6 feet long) * A 1 inch PVC 90 degrees Elblow * A 1 inch female PCV tube
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