1gf7EN - The Thing Around My Neck by Jonas Vincent https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg Lavet med et stjerneskud en-us 2017-09-25 06:33:54 UTC 2026-01-27 11:31:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Gruppe 1 https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683745 - Black women born i Nigeria 
- ”We Should All Be Feminists” 
- Moved to the US at the age of 19
- The thing around your neck - it's about the different realtions in the states in life 
- She has won 15 awards
- Won "The commonwealth writers prize" for best first book 

]]> 2017-09-25 06:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683745 Gruppe 4 carl_dahl https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683807 -40 years old
-From Nigerian
-Married
-Writes about the status of the immergrants, and the differences between men and women.
-Født: 15. september 1977 in the city Enugu, Nigeria. 

]]> 2017-09-25 06:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683807 GRuppe 7 https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683856 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  
- Born in Nigeria. when she turn 19 she moved to USA  
- She stand in for human rights 
- she is a writer, but she also has a politic role 
- write about immigrants ]]> 2017-09-25 06:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683856 Group 2 liv_jensen https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683862 - The main themes explored in the short story “The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are the loneliness of being and immigrant in America, and the differences between men and women. Adichie's message is that, for an immigrant woman, getting adjusted to the life in a new country can be difficult and even dramatic.

- The author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won several prizes, including:
  • the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2009, for The Thing around Your Neck
  • the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2009, for The Thing around Your Neck
  • the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010: Best Book (Africa), for The Thing around Your Neck
...And many other nominations and prizes for other stories

notes:
- Mainly takes place in America. 
- Told in 2. person.
- Moves from Lagos Nigeria to Maine America.
- Has an American uncle
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]]> 2017-09-25 06:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683862 https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683888 2017-09-25 06:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683888 gruppe 3 https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683912 she comes from Nigeria she studiet in the united stats of America she is a feminist she was born in 1977 in the city Enugu she has won many awards for her books her debut was in 2003 with the book purple hibiscus ]]> 2017-09-25 06:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683912 Gruppe 5 https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683991 - The Thing Around Your Neck is a short story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it was first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US. It received many positive reviews including: 'She makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong' (Daily Telegraph) 'Stunning. Like all fine storytellers, she leaves us wanting more' (The Times)
- Chimamanda has been sampled by Beyonce.
- She has got a bachelor in communication.
- She's a feminist.
- She's 40 years old.

- America
- "He lived in a small white town in Maine"
- Connecticut
- ]]> 2017-09-25 06:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190683991 Gruppe 8 https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190684029 - Born in 1977 in Nigeria
- Moved to the United States at the age of 19
- One of the awards she won, was the ”National Book Critics Circle Award”]]> 2017-09-25 06:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190684029 GRUPPE 6 https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190684481 -The authors name is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and she was born and raised in Nigeria. 
-she writes novels, short stories and nonfiction
-she started writing books at an early age
-shes a feminist
-moved to the states at the age of 19, to study political science at the Drexel university in Pennsylvania.
-she has a degree from Yale, and has studied at both Princeton and Harvard.
-lives near baltimore

she starts out in Lagos, NIgeria and she goes to the US, in Maine. Later on she leaves for Connecticut

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"My own definition of feminist is: a feminist is a man or a woman who says – a feminist is a man or a woman who says “Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it. We must do better.”]]> 2017-09-25 06:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190686431 Gruppe 1: https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190691109 2017-09-25 07:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jv1/4mdrgtflbthg/wish/190691109