Americanah: Analysis of Language and Accents

Americanah Analysis of Language and AccentsAmericanah ISU Part 2 (Plot Summary) Pg. 1Ifemelu speaks without the put on vehemence for the premiere time when taking a train to aunty Ujus house. While on the train she meets Blaine, a Black American hu part organisms, and they devolve the trip talking. Blaine gives Ifemelu his teleph whiz number, however he never calls her back.The chapter is finished when a web log can close American Tribalism. Ifemelu says in her blog that thither are four kinds of tribes in America class, ideology, religion, and race.In chapter 18, it returns to the present day. Mariama has a new customer who notices a stack of Nigerian magazines and says that Nigerians are cognize for cosmos criminals.The story again returns to the past. Kimberly introduces brusque and Ifemelu. The two begin to take in and frizzy tells her he his wealthy and his family has been hoteliers for hundreds of years. Kimberly is happy that the two are dating. Curt tells Ife melu she is beautiful and he loves her body. She sometimes thinks of Obinze when they are to cookher, but she tries not to equation them. Ifemelu is happy with Curt who spoils her with money and attention.Chapter 19, Graduation is drawing near, but Ifemelu isnt certain(prenominal)(a) what she wants to do. Curt sets up an interview for her with a company that provide inspection and repair her get a work visa and start the process to get a green card. Ifemelu removes her braids and relaxes her tomentum cerebri. She does well at the interview and wonders if things would have gone(a) so well if shed gone in with her natural hair.Chapter 20 starts with Ifemelu upkeep in Baltimore. Ifemelu has her own apartment, but she spends most of her time at Curts. She continues to relax her hair and it begins to fall out of the temples. Wambui convinces her to cut her hair and permit it go natural. Ifemelu cuts her hair very short and hates it. She is embarrassed by her hair and calls in si ck to work the next day.The chapter ends with a blog post titled Why Dark-Skinned Black Women Both American and Non-American have a go at it Barack Obama. In the post she says that black men uniform their women to be flatboat skinned, but Obama married a woman who is not light skinned, so women ilk him.Chapter 21 begins on a Sunday morning with a call from Aunty Uju complaining about what Dike wants to wear to church. Uju is certain they will be talked about if he doesnt dress properly and shes been copulation him to tone it down in school so he doesnt assure so different. Ifemelu convinces Dike to wear the shirt his mother has chosen and says outwit bring Curt to meet him on the weekend.The blog post at the end of the chapter is about how Non-American Blacks become black when they come to America and on with that comes all of the stereotypes and racial issues.In Chapter 22, Ifemelu runs into Kayode in a mall. Kayode tells her Obinze asked him to look her up and she recover s numb at the mention of Obinzes public figure. Kayode tells her Obinze is in England and she feels betrayed to find out in that respect have been changes to his career-time that she didnt know about.She tells Kayode she is with her boy partner and walks away. She tells Curt she ran into a friend from high school, but wont say more. He asks if it was an old cuss because she seems upset. She says not, but refuses to explain.In Chapter 23, the focus of the novel shifts to Obinzes past when he lived in London. He is not there legally, so he cannot work.Obinze realizes Cleotilde is attracted to him and he asks her for her phone number. The Angolans say he should call them. Obinze gives Cleotilde his number asking if shed like to get coupledly with him, and she says yes.Once in England, Obinze takes a job cleansing bathrooms, but quits when he walks into a stall to find somebody has defecated on a toilet lid. He feels like the person who has do this was staging a performance som ehow and it makes him feel small.Obinze and Ojiugo have a conversation about accents and Obinze wonders if Nigerians are more forgiving of their children raised in England because they have foreign accents.Chapter 25 talks about what drew Obinze to be friends with Emenike when they were in high school. Emenike was a sharp boy who was eager to be seen as someone who knew things and was of a higher class than he very was Obinze calls Emenike when he arrives in England, but Emenike puts him off repeatedly saying he is busy with work and travel. Obinze realizes Emenike has changed and will not help him get an NI number so he can work.He calls another friend, Iloba, who has endlessly treated Obinze as a kinsman. Iloba puts Obinze in touch with a man named Vincent who arrests to let Obinze use his NI number in exchange for cardinal percent of his pay.In Chapter 26, Obinze is working at various jobs under the name of Vincent. He works a job in a warehouse where Roy Snell, an positionm an, is his boss. Roy treats him kindly and Obinze fits in well with the other workers.Obinze realizes that Nigels reaction has to do with the mans accent and that if he had spoken differently, Nigel would have complained about not receiving a tip.Chapter 31 shifts back to Ifemelus past. She has just broken up with Curt after having cheated on him with a man who lives in her apartment complex. She tells Ginika the relationship just didnt feel right. Ifemelu tries to reconcile with Curt, but he will not talk to her. She in conclusion accepts the end of the relationship and thinks there must be something wrong with her. She feels like she doesnt completely know herself.In Chapter 32, Aunty Uju tells Ifemelu she has joined African Doctors for Africa and met a man named Kweku who is also a doctor. She says he treats her like a princess and reminds her that Curt treated her that way, too. Kweku also treats Dike well, which makes Ifemelu like him. When Ifemelu tells Dike she has broke up with Curt, he asks her if shell be okay and brings her a tray with a banana tree and a can of peanuts on it.Chapter 33 begins by talking about how Ifemelus blog has grown. She has gained many show upers and is receiving donations from people who want to support the blog. She is also being paid to advertise on her blog. She is immersed in the blog and checks her email frequently and eagerly. Ifemelu also begins being invited to speak at diversity conferences.Americanah ISU Part 2 (Literary Analysis) Pg.3BooksBooks are a symbol of a soften life. Obinze is, from the start, a expectant lover of books. He is particularly fond of American novels as a teen because he aspires to move to America where he believes he will have a better life. Later, when he is living in England as an illegal immigrant, his escape from his bleak reality is found in bookstores where he treats himself to an expensive coffee and sits among the books reading as much as he can. Ifemelu becomes a lover of books, too, after she moves to America and Obinze encourages her to read more American novels to learn more about the culture there. She goes to the library and loves it there where the books are in great shape and have all their pages, unlike the books she had in Nigeria. When Obinze and Ifemelu are reunited in Nigeria, their first meeting takes place at a bookstore called Jazzhole. Ifemelu tells Obinze shes going there to buy a book and he meets her there where their new journey toward a better life together begins. .AccentsAccents are a symbol of a persons place in society. Ifemelu first learns this when she registers for her college classes and is treated like she is unintelligent and cant understand English because of her Nigerian accent. After that, she adopts an American accent for a time. While in England, Obinze clear sees how people are treated differently based on their accents. He wonders if his cousin and his cousins wife are easier on their kids because they have English acc ents. And, during one delivery for the warehouse he works at, he and Nigel meet a very shabby looking man who speaks with a posh English accent. In spite of his looks, Nigel says the man is a real gent and Obinze realizes Nigel reacts to the man in that manner because of the mans accent.American sitcoms The American sitcoms that Ifemelu grows up watching symbolize the life she thinks she will have when she moves to America. These shows feature affluent black families and Ifemelu believes that is how Uju is living in America and that is how she will live, too. However, when she arrives in America, Ifemelu discovers thats not the case at all. Uju is working three jobs to support herself and Dike while she attends school. She is tired and has let her appearance go. Ifemelu is initially unable to find work and lives in poverty, so far degrading herself just to pay the rent. She also encounters issues of race that she never see on the sitcoms. She discovers that Black Americans are of ten treated as though they are of a lower class than White Americans. In fact, she never identified as Black until she moved to America.Blogs Ifemelus blogs represent freedom for her. through with(predicate) Ifemelus blog writing, she is financially secure and free to live a life that is not dependent on a man like Ujus life with The General or Ranyinudos life with Don. The blogs also give her the freedom to expressage herself and talk about topics that are of interest to her. This freedom is the main cause Ifemelu quits her job at Zoe to start her second blog.Americanah ISU Part 1 (Quotation Analysis) Pg. 5This was his weekly treat to visit the bookshop, buy an overpriced caffeinated drink, read as much as he could for free, and become Obinze again. Narrator (Part 3, Chapter 27 paragraph 1)In the novel, books are a symbol of a better life. When Obinze is living in England with little money and a fear of being deported, he finds comfort among books and is able to regain something of his old life and dignity there.Their union was leached of passion, but there was a new passion, outside of themselves, that united them in intimacy they had never had before, an unfixed, unspoken, intuitive intimacy Barack Obama. They agreed, without any prodding, without the shadows of certificate of indebtedness or compromise, on Barack Obama. Narrator (Part 4, Chapter 40 paragraph 1)This quote is a foreshadowing of the demise of Ifemelus and Blaines relationship. After they get back together following(a) the argument about the protest Ifemelu failed to attend, the only thing they truly agree on is that they both want Barack Obama to be elected president. However, the relationship is never the same again, making it easy for Ifemelu to leave Blaine behind when she returns to Nigeria.I perplex that she will end up like many women in Lagos who deposit their lives by men they can never truly have, crippled by their culture of dependence, with desperation in their eyes and des igner handbags on their wrists. Ifemelu (Part 7, Chapter 50 paragraph Part 7, Chapter 50)This quote comes from a blog post that Ifemelu writes for her blog in Nigeria. It is about Ranyinudos relationship with Don, but could just as intimately have been said about Aunty Uju when she was with The General. The quote is significant to the solution of the role of women since this is one of the choices Ifemelu could have made for her life.At the Abuja airport on his way back to Lagos, he thought of going to the external wing instead, buying a ticket to somewhere improbable, like Malabo. so he felt a passing self-disgust because he would not, of course, do it he would instead do what he was expected to do. Narrator (Part 7, Chapter 54 paragraph 23)This quotation shows Obinzes desire to leave his marriage and change his life, but feeling as though he cannot because he has a office to his wife and daughter. It shows his internal struggle with the direction his life should take.