Simplification and Numbness
In Adichie's novel, the chapter "The Thing Around Your Neck" has a very distant, cold, and numb feeling to it. This is emphasized through Adichie's use of the second person "you" to tell her story. This emphasizes her distance from her live during the experience and the reader. It seems as if Adichie wasn't experiencing these events but rather an unknown "you". Adichie also emphases these feeling through writing shorter, less complicated sentences. She takes a difficult time for herself and simplifies it through easy to read and understand sentences.
Adichie's use of these two writing mechanism helps the reader understand how she felt while living in America. It helps us understand the distance she felt from her family and the inability to effectively connect to those around her.
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