Group Padlet Jigsaw by Farid Nasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt Quotes from Americanah en-us 2020-09-17 10:35:11 UTC 2026-03-21 22:34:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Identity faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762088308 2020-09-20 15:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762088308 Connection to "The Things They Carried" faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762088365 2020-09-20 15:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762088365 Racism faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762088778 2020-09-20 15:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762088778 Connection to "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762088889 Santiago Nasar sexually abused and harassed his black servant as well as her daughter.]]> 2020-09-20 15:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762088889 Social Status faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762089196 2020-09-20 15:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762089196 Connection to "A Doll's House" faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762089309 2020-09-20 15:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762089309 muradheydarov https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762096034 "Americanah!" Ranyinudo teased her often. "You are looking at things with American eyes. But the problem is that you are not even a real Americanah. At least if you had an American accent we would tolerate your complaining!"]]> 2020-09-20 15:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762096034 faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762097369 People around Tim O'Brien projected their wrong ideologies of war and honor onto him, forcing him to attend war.]]> 2020-09-20 15:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762097369 faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762101543 Females were objectified and treated as Dolls rather than equal human beings.]]> 2020-09-20 15:57:52 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762101543 faridnasirli https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762109999 2020-09-20 16:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762109999 muradheydarov https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762128858 Later, she said, “I have to take my braids out for my interviews and relax my hair… If you have braids, they will think you are unprofessional.”

“You do what you have to do if you want to succeed.”

There it was again, the strange naivete with which Aunty Uju had covered herself like a blanket. Sometimes, while having a conversation, it would occur to Ifemelu that Aunty Uju had deliberately left behind something of herself, something essential, in a distant and forgotten place. Obinze said it was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.

]]> 2020-09-20 16:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762128858 muradheydarov https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762475294 She brought out her checkbook. Before she wrote the check, she called Aunty Uju to
speak to Dike. Then, refreshed by his innocence, she called the tennis coach in Ardmore.
“When can I start working?” she asked.
“Want to come over right now?”
“Okay,” she said.
She shaved her underarms, dug out the lipstick she had not worn since the day she left Lagos, most of it left smeared on Obinze’s neck at the airport. What would happen with
the tennis coach? He had said “massage,” but his manner, his tone, had dripped
suggestion.]]> 2020-09-20 22:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/faridnasirli/2d7euxekoe9593rt/wish/762475294