"Marriage Is A Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe. The teacher told us to write a short summary about the story and compare it to the world or our lives in some way.
Title: "Marriage Is A Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe.
The teacher told us to write a short summary about the story and compare it to the world or our lives in some way.
Category: /Literature/North American
Details: Words: 1081 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Marriage Is A Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe.
The teacher told us to write a short summary about the story and compare it to the world or our lives in some way.
Category: /Literature/North American
Details: Words: 1081 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Marriage Is A Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe is told in the third person point of view. It takes place somewhere in Nigeria. There are 3 main characters in this story and about 10 in all, however they are merely mentioned.
Nene Atang is the woman that Nnaemeka chose to marry. She's from Calabar, she's a good housewife, a teacher in an all female school and she has a good Christian background. She is engaged to Nnaemeka …showed first 75 words of 1081 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1081 total…don't understand why more people just don't leave their homes instead of being forced to marry.
Arranged marriages are something that will slowly fade away as time goes by. They will just be seen as a barbaric practice of the past. Until that day though, people will just have to leave their homes and break contact with their families or put up with it and let their lives be run by their families and tradition.