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This document summarizes several short stories, providing the main characters, brief plots, and structural features of each work. It also identifies common themes across the stories such as gender roles, family, religion, and the impacts of colonization. The stories employ different structures - some remain within a single timeframe while others jump across generations or include flashforwards.

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This document summarizes several short stories, providing the main characters, brief plots, and structural features of each work. It also identifies common themes across the stories such as gender roles, family, religion, and the impacts of colonization. The stories employ different structures - some remain within a single timeframe while others jump across generations or include flashforwards.

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Story Title Main Character(s) Summary Structural features Themes and symbols

A Private - Chika Two women hide from the riot Whilst most of this short story stays - Religion
Experience - Other Woman together, even though they’re within the same time frame (in 24 - Social class
- Nnedi from the opposing religions. hours or so) there is a few scenes in - Female issues
which flashforwarding is used to skip - Education
to important parts.

The Headstrong - Nwamgba A story of three generations of Jumps across many years, through - Gender roles
Historian - Grace African heritage, how generations (decades) through flash - Religion
- Anikwenwa colonisation impacted African forwarding. Most of it is set in the - Colonisation
culture and how powerful past (Nwamgba) and then later on in - Family & marriage
women were seen negatively. the present (Grace).

Cell One - Unknown About an unknown narrator’s Most of the story is set around the - Justice System
Narrator brother and how he ended up in same timeline, but the story jumps - Social class
- Nnamabia prison, faced to the harsh reality around a bit to focus on the - Family
of a system filled with injustice important events. - Violence
and violence.

Tomorrow is Too - Narrator The narrator planned to The story starts with the narrators - Family
Far - Nonso somehow injure Nonso to make last summer in Nigeria, the narrator - Gender roles
- Dozie less loveable, due to never now 18 years later recounts the
receiving any love from her own events that she now bitterly regrets.
mother and grandmama, and
later Dozie as well.

The Thing - Akunna Succumbed to the idea of the Story is set around the same timeline - The American
Around Your - Boy American dream, Akunna is and doesn’t jump to the past but Dream
Neck faced with the reality of her own does make mention to the past. - Loneliness
loneliness and the strange - Racism
pressured idea of Americanism.

The Arrangers of - Chinaza Immigrants are vulnerable to the Set around the same timeline, - Arranged marriage
Marriage - Ofodile idea of the ‘American dream’ however Chinaza makes mention to - Gender roles
and that arranged marriage can back to when her auncle and auntie - The American
be extremely uncomfortable if were arranging her marriages. dream
unwanted. - Colonisation

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