Familial Connections Between The Storyteller And Dozie

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The story has both qualities and shortcomings, however the shortcoming of the story is more evident. The shortcoming of familial connections is to a great degree clear; between the storyteller and her sibling, amongst Dozie and the grandma, and between the storyteller's guardians, every one of these connections are to a great degree powerless and go into disrepair at the passing of Nonso on the off chance that they are not officially broken before it. One quality of the story is that of versatility, living through the agony of an extensive and cursing mystery is hard for the storyteller and Dozie, and however the storyteller separates, her life up until that point is depicted at moderately simple, as in she has a vocation and an existence in

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