Introduction
Ifemelu’s is a Nigerian woman that moves to the USA to start a new life. Through the years she decides to move back to Nigeria. In the book Adichie shows to us the difficulty in be an immigrant and a black Nigerian woman in America. She tells us the process of self identity by the Americanization, racism, race, gender and love.
Identity
On the book Ifemelu has a struggle with herself identity. Through the book analysis, we will see some things that happen with her. These things made her confused with herself.
- The Love Ifemelu’s relationships move with her personality and contribute to her identity construction. The relationship with Court is her first love experience outside Nigeria. At the beginning she is …show more content…
She doesn’t really feel all the stuff she is writing about…If she were African American, she’d just be labeled angry and shunned” (245).
Even though Blaine is a good man she can connect with him, she feels like something is missing. Her relationship with Obinze is full of passion and they understand each other. He is the key point to Ifemelu’s find herself. Even when she gets depressed and get away from him reject his calls she still thinking in him, all over the thirteen years Obinze helped her become a strong woman. After years of bad and good experiences she decides to come back to her home and for Ifemulu, Obinze is like her home.
- Writing Write is the scape valvule of Ifemelu and through the book we can see that her blog plays an important role in the story. It’s a place where she can talk about her experience about gender issues and race. She can also connect with people that sympathize with her situation. Ifemelus star writing because becomes hard talk about racial issues with her friends, the blog serve to her talk about the thoughts of one society where “racism exists but racists are all gone.” (390) She talks about the feelings of being oppressed and each post we can see …show more content…
She starts understands her place in society and change her identity. She changes the way she sees the world. When she faces a situation that affects hear as a black, a woman or an immigrant she use her blog to reflect the factors that led this happens. As a black woman she felt the pressure to adapt to a new culture in order to be accepted. In the end she closes her blog because she realizes that she lost herself through the writing
“Ifemelu put the phone down and thought of her mother, how often she blamed the devil. The devil is a liar. The devil wants to block us. She stared at the phone, and then at the bills on her table, a tight, suffocating pressure rising inside her chest.” (175)
Conclusion Ifemelu’s over change and molded herself by her experiences in American culture and her romantic relationship this help her grow up as a strong and independent woman. On the journey to find her identity, she becomes a hybrid between the American culture and the Nigerian culture that help her become who she are. This fact stays her away from both cultures. She’s not American but she’s not connecting with a lot of traditions and customs of Nigeria. That’s why she’s now a “Americanah” an African that adopts the characteristics of the American
Ifemelu’s is a Nigerian woman that moves to the USA to start a new life. Through the years she decides to move back to Nigeria. In the book Adichie shows to us the difficulty in be an immigrant and a black Nigerian woman in America. She tells us the process of self identity by the Americanization, racism, race, gender and love.
Identity
On the book Ifemelu has a struggle with herself identity. Through the book analysis, we will see some things that happen with her. These things made her confused with herself.
- The Love Ifemelu’s relationships move with her personality and contribute to her identity construction. The relationship with Court is her first love experience outside Nigeria. At the beginning she is …show more content…
She doesn’t really feel all the stuff she is writing about…If she were African American, she’d just be labeled angry and shunned” (245).
Even though Blaine is a good man she can connect with him, she feels like something is missing. Her relationship with Obinze is full of passion and they understand each other. He is the key point to Ifemelu’s find herself. Even when she gets depressed and get away from him reject his calls she still thinking in him, all over the thirteen years Obinze helped her become a strong woman. After years of bad and good experiences she decides to come back to her home and for Ifemulu, Obinze is like her home.
- Writing Write is the scape valvule of Ifemelu and through the book we can see that her blog plays an important role in the story. It’s a place where she can talk about her experience about gender issues and race. She can also connect with people that sympathize with her situation. Ifemelus star writing because becomes hard talk about racial issues with her friends, the blog serve to her talk about the thoughts of one society where “racism exists but racists are all gone.” (390) She talks about the feelings of being oppressed and each post we can see …show more content…
She starts understands her place in society and change her identity. She changes the way she sees the world. When she faces a situation that affects hear as a black, a woman or an immigrant she use her blog to reflect the factors that led this happens. As a black woman she felt the pressure to adapt to a new culture in order to be accepted. In the end she closes her blog because she realizes that she lost herself through the writing
“Ifemelu put the phone down and thought of her mother, how often she blamed the devil. The devil is a liar. The devil wants to block us. She stared at the phone, and then at the bills on her table, a tight, suffocating pressure rising inside her chest.” (175)
Conclusion Ifemelu’s over change and molded herself by her experiences in American culture and her romantic relationship this help her grow up as a strong and independent woman. On the journey to find her identity, she becomes a hybrid between the American culture and the Nigerian culture that help her become who she are. This fact stays her away from both cultures. She’s not American but she’s not connecting with a lot of traditions and customs of Nigeria. That’s why she’s now a “Americanah” an African that adopts the characteristics of the American