Comments on: Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Read-along Complete!

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:30:21 +0000

sonny alofe – You are right, it does tend to focus on the Igbo perspective. I’m afraid I don’t know anything about the conflict other than what is written in this book. What am I missing out on? I’d love to hear more about it, from someone who has a greeater understanding than me. Thank you for aking the time to comment on my blog, and I hope you can enlighten us a bit more about the Yoraba people.

By: sonny alofe

sonny alofe — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:41:55 +0000

This book described Yoraba people as “first-rate lickspittles”; the greatest lickspittle during the civil war was an Igbo man – Nnamdi Azikiwe.
This book tend to look at things from the Igbo perspective alone

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By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:34:19 +0000

Claire – It is interesting to hear that you weren’t affected by it. I found it to be just as harrowing as the Cellist of Sarajevo. Maybe you do have compassion fatigue?

I didn’t cry at all, but that is quite rare for me. I am intrigued by De Niro’s game – I wonder if it can make me cry?

I’m off to read your review now – thanks for reading along with me!

By: claire

claire — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:26:30 +0000

Finally, I’ve finished. I think this could easilly become a classic. I didn’t feel distressed reading this, I’m not really sure why. Maybe it has to do with having read too many books about war of late. (What is the What, The Cellist of Sarajevo, De Niro’s Game, among others.) True, the events described were horrifying, but I think it’s because I expected them that I didn’t feel shocked nor surprised at anything that happened.

I very much loved this book. It was a wonderful read. I can’t wait to read more Adichie. I was only a little surprised that it didn’t elicit as much emotion from me as What is the What and De Niro’s Game did (which both made me cry buckets). But I think this was much more elegantly written than those two, though.

Ugwu was also my favourite character. I really liked how he developed, and I’m certainly very forgiving of what he did. After all, it was obvious that he didn’t want to do it. It was just out of peer pressure that he found no other choice but. If he were an older man, I would probably be disgusted with him, but as it is, and only a child, I can only sympathize about how so innocently unaware he was of so many things, about choices and consequences.

I felt the breaks in between enhanced my reading experience. While the events that occurred were hinted at, and I could guess what they were, the tension built up more progressively that way.