Description
story from the Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck book
“Tomorrow is Too Far”
Your assignment is to write a 400-500 word Reading Analysis in which you read “Tomorrow is Too Far” from Thing Around Your Neck book and respond to one of the following topics:
1-Compare one character from the new Adichie story you chose to another character in an Adichie story or in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. What do the authors tell us about these characters or how they change (or don’t change)—that is, does the character have an arc? Remember to consider all the different ways that authors can reveal aspects of their characters.
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Identify and analyze one important theme that Adichie develops in this new story and compare/contrast the development of this theme in a one of the other Adichie stories we’ve read, or in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Remember to develop your theme as specifically as possibly. (For example, “education” is too general—what kind of education, and what is the author saying about it?)
Note: If you’d like to compare the new story to some other text (not Adichie, and not Achebe), but this might be less useful in helping you prepare for the next essay.
You must analyze examples from the texts to support your interpretation.
Use MLA citation, including a Works Cited page. You are not required to refer to outside sources in this assignment; as always, any and all sources you use must be cited.
MLA tips:
• The individual stories by Adichie belong to the citation category “entry in a collection or anthology” because The Thing Around Your Neck is a collection. Example:
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Headstrong Historian.” The Thing Around Your Neck
Sample Solution