Americanah

American and I is Anzia Yezierska short story where she talks about her struggle on adjusting to American life. She immigrated to the United States to experience a new hope of life that is not available in Russia. For her, America is a land of leaving hope, to constantly work to be able to survive, and to have freedom. However, she was unskilled, untrained, wasn’t eligible to work in a factory. She was forced to work for an Americanized family, as she began to work, she soon found out that she is mistaken. Even though the Americanized family didn’t tell her how much she will be paid, Yezierska works hard, and she was thankful to have a chance to live with Americans because she start to learn English. The family wasn’t fair on paying Yezierska

Throughout this lay, there is a sense of hope in the author's tone, almost good-natured and kind hearted. She also sets a series of sorrowful tones that creates an atmosphere for the troubles the lovers have gone through to be in the presence of each other. However, the majority of the story is the happiness and joy from the lovers finally being with one another. Toward the

“She’ll come back and be a real Americanah like Bisi” (Adichie 65). The title of the book is Americanah. It is a made up word that stands for the African people who go to America and come back changed. This Americanah idea just adds to the theme of African people want to be more American.

1..An American Apotheosis, written by Joseph L. Price, discusses the religious element of sports. His thesis, “For tens of millions of devoted fans throughout the country, sports constitute a popular form of religion by shaping their world and sustaining their ways of engaging it.” (Price, p. 196) Takes on the difficult challenge of defining sport as religion. This is done through Price’s exploration of how sports shape and engage the world for the millions of devoted fans in America, how sports enable participants to explore levels of selfhood, how sports establish a means for bonding with the devotee community, how sports model ways to deal with fate while playing by the rules and how sports provide the prospect of experiencing abundant life.

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two great short stories. One being “The Story of

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the National Bestseller Americanah has a very descriptive, personal writing style. The writing style is very unique, even though it isn't written in first person you feel very close to the main character as if they’re the one who's telling the story. The writer uses imagery to make you feel as if you are in the setting that is being described.

Throughout the article, “What does America Stand for?” Bremmer explains the three choices for America’s strategy moving into the future. Ian Bremmer’s choices for America’s strategy includes; Indispensable America, Moneyball America, Independent America. All of these choices affect the nation in some certain ways. Through these choices, America can go into three different directions for success.

Two clichés: Absence makes the heart grow fonder and Out of sight, out of mind. Which one of these two conflicting views is closer to the reality? As it turns out, it does not really matter that much since long distance relationships (LDR) suffer from exactly the same strengths and weaknesses as proximal relationships. Whether two people are going to have fulfilling relationship does not only depend on their geographical closeness. What matters is quality, not quantity. According to one expert on LDRs, "the majority of studies that have been done show no greater risk of an LDR breaking up than any other relationship (Guldner, 2004, p. 6)." An LDR relationship has the same likelihood of

Both the poem and novel relate to eachother through race and the "invisibily"of the main characters portrayed. "I, too, sing America" is the

Ifemelu has three serious boyfriends throughout the novel: Obinze, Curt, and Blaine. These three men deeply affect how Ifemelu grows and changes, whether it be with showing her the truth about herself or just being a support system. Obinze was Ifemelu’s’ first love and first heartbreak, who really pushes her to her full potential. After that relationship comes to an end, she moves to America and forms a relationship with a white man named Blaine. Blaine does not see Ifemelu’s race but sees her for her hard work at Princeton University and her drive for a better life. After graduating, she decides that America is not for her and that she is going to go back home to Nigeria. This upsets Blaine due to the fact she makes this decision without considering how this would affect him. When Ifemelu moves back to Nigeria, she forms a new relationship with a man named Curt. Ifemelu

2a) Adichie uses a narrative point of view to explore the theme of domestic violence. The book is narrated in the first person by a 15 year old who is directly affected by domestic violence. Because of her young age she is quiet honest and this allows her to paint a great picture to the audience of the brutal abuse that Eugene bestows upon his family. This is as a result of her sensitive, intelligent and observant nature.

American Regionalism art was made during the 1930’s and 40’s. The movement coincided with the Great Depression (1929-1939), with the height of popularity from 1930-35. Artists involved were from the rural Midwest & South and used local traditions, farm landscapes, American values, & realistic images as inspiration. Opposite of the style represented by abstract expressionists/post modernists.The artists rejected European Avant-garde by embracing a more realist style of art. The art is representative of the strength of the people by showing the Country and its roots of farming. The movement eventually ended in the 1940’s as Abstract began to expand in popularity.

In Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the story is vastly shaped by the tone of how she wrote it. Constantly switching back and forth between perspectives and time periods, the story is not linear. The conclusion of Americanah is interesting because, unlike the rest of the book, it IS linear. It is the finality of the whole story that the reader sees. The tone of the conclusion of Americanah provides closure to Ifemelu’s and Obinze’s characters by giving them the possibility of a relationship and offers closure to the theme of Ifemelu’s search for home.

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the novel Love in the Time of Cholera deals with a passionate man's unfulfilled love and his quest of more than 50 years to win the heart of his true love. It's without question one of the most emotional depictions of love, but what separates it from similar novels is its suggestion that lovesickness is a literal disease, a plague comparable to cholera.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie and Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương offers insight into our world and gives us a greater understanding of our surrounding through the places, events and characters that envelop the stories. Adichie’s novel, published in May 2013 and set in the early 1990’s and onwards focusses on Ifemelu and Obinze and their struggle through life as they live and learn with and without each other, as well as in and out of Nigeria. Paradise of the Blind, published in 1988 and set at the same time, shows Hang and her family living in a post-Vietnam war world, with Hang torn between two ideals surrounding her. Though both stories are told through different historical and cultural lenses, these novels carry their stories through the idea that corruption burdens the community and the family unit, with corruption meaning “The action or effect of making someone or something morally depraved” (Oxford dictionary, 2016). This idea is shown through characterisation of people, description of the surrounding and the use of descriptive language found in both novels represents the impact that corruption of authority and familial obligation has on a person and their surroundings, no matter the time and place. This thesis will be shown through investigating the flawed beliefs held by the