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Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Nobody: 8:09am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Those are chacters potrayed.by a good writer op. If i may ask you, why should Romeo die in that legendary.shakespearian work? it shows how good she is and how spell bound she held her readers.... as for me i dont read all these gothics nor Romantic, i rather go for the sci-fi Anyways..... Drabeey was HERE |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Kingspin(m): 8:10am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Unfortunately not everybody like half truth. But is good we say the truth all the time. Sorry if the truth is not in your side and accepting it will be a step forward. 1 Like |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by fullstreets: 8:10am On Apr 30, 2017 |
D book is her's, she wanted u to feel exactly what u r feeling. 1 Like |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Nobody: 8:11am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by tickertop(m): 8:11am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Oh sad stories in Biafra war. Are we gonna have another war again?? |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by joepentwo(m): 8:12am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by NobleRomm(m): 8:13am On Apr 30, 2017 |
oyalunasamuel: Go and watch the video..... "HALF OF THE YELLOW SUN" you will like it... . i love the video. 1 Like |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Nobody: 8:15am On Apr 30, 2017 |
The fact that the book took you on that sort of roller-coaster ride tells of its success. Chimamanda Adichie is a genius! Half of a yellow sun was the first I read of hers. Purple Hibiscus and Americanah are equally brilliant. Not as tragic but every bit as entertaining and topical. 1 Like |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by MarieSucre(f): 8:18am On Apr 30, 2017 |
sisisioge: Please do not watch the movie. I went to the cinema to watch it and I was greatly disappointed. I think this is her only book I am yet to read. I need motivation to pick it up. |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by uzoexcel(m): 8:18am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Chimamanda wrote the book most probably based on her experience..the book might not v been totally fiction.....hence the dedication to milliteus...also we should probably remember that the biafra dddnt bed happily for most families....most people lost at least a person or two...the novel probably served as a point of contact to those people oyalunasamuel: 1 Like |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Nobody: 8:18am On Apr 30, 2017 |
NobleRomm: Wow, I feel the movie doesn't do the book any justice at all. |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by k199192: 8:23am On Apr 30, 2017 |
HRich:why you no post the game here? |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Nobody: 8:23am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Sandyyyyy:Where did you get this from?? It is FICTION. |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Nobody: 8:26am On Apr 30, 2017 |
skimarvel: Chimanda reaching for her new check
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Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Bridget95(f): 8:26am On Apr 30, 2017 |
My father told me how the Nigerian army would storm a village force hundreds into rooms and set the house ablaze.heavily Pregnant women caught and their stomach ripped open with a dagger and the fetus brought out as the woman lay helplessly to die. how fleeing civilians where buried alive,shot dead and buried in mass graves. how old people and babies were fling on the ground and ran over by moving vehicles . The Nigerian army committed terrible heinous crimes against the igbo population who were innocent but cut up in war. It was really a terrible experience.The reason why the president still remain wicked to igbos is linked to his wickedness he and his soldiers perpetrated against the innocent igbo population during their bloodletting and genocide. 5 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by olab059(m): 8:29am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Sandyyyyy: How can this be when she wasn't even alive during the war? 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by judgedredd22(m): 8:31am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Ralphlauren:
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Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by oshorstan(m): 8:31am On Apr 30, 2017 |
try n watch the movie |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by nacaz4real(m): 8:32am On Apr 30, 2017 |
My dad also lost someone very close to him, a dear friend who had his back like a brother, up till date they don't know whether he died in the war or not, this happened during the Asaba massacre, the Nigerian soldiers were so ruthless on that day. Even though its over 45 years my dad still narrates the ordeal with tears in his eyes. SAY NO TO WAR. oyalunasamuel: 3 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by MarieSucre(f): 8:34am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Bridget95: Wow your comment cuts me up. It's sad that while we live in relative peace now, there was a time when people could literally be alive one second and be dead the next, a gruesome death at that. The East has recovered beautifully tho. 2 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Stevenbright(m): 8:37am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Half Of A Yellow Sun is a nice read any time! You can even use the book to master the art of controlling your emotions. |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by ponti93(m): 8:41am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Every story doesnt hav a happy ending... Even some holywood movies will leave in shock when at d end d protagonist dies... Watch movies like blair witch or tv series like westworld.. Same goes to book writing. |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by olab059(m): 8:42am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Bridget95: I have read many many stories like this here on Nairaland, and I know some are exaggerated stories. I know we are supposed to learn from our pasts, but how do we move forward when people tell their children stories to make them hate and never to trust a certain people cos of what was done to them by those people's forefathers like half a century ago? How are we to love when we preach hate. The cycle will only continue. 2 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by bennymark(m): 8:44am On Apr 30, 2017 |
MarieSucre: the movie is nothing in comparison to the intricacies the book highlighted. please pick up a copy and am sure the decision won't be regrettable. asides the tale of war and horror that tainted the biafran illusion, the book gives you more insight into some of the happenings from the war not as if this is the first biafran themed work, but going through different works helps you draw inference from what actually happened as some of the tell tales seem overly fictitious than real. Nigerian history is still being shaped, we have not began I do not like the lady because of her beliefs, but her writing is astonishingly superb (read 3 of her books asides other publications), you will enjoy the book if you finally grab a copy PS: it wasn't mistaken how the book ended, just like '50 shades of grey'. This type of ending either means there is more tale, or the author wants you to leave your cocoon and think outside the box 1 Like |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by repogirl(f): 8:46am On Apr 30, 2017 |
OP, if the story made you feel this way, it means she did one hell of a job. Thats what good writers do, they get to the reader and make you feel something. Its normal to have your own thoughts about how it should have ended. I disagreed vehemently with how she chose to end Americannah but in hindsight, I can understand it. Chimamanda is no feel good, happily ever after story writer, she is very realistic in her stories. I've not read the book even though I've had it on audiobook for years now but your review has gotten me interested in it. 3 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Sleekyshuga(f): 8:48am On Apr 30, 2017 |
MarieSucre:The movie is a fraction of the actual picture painted in her book.. It's worth every time though be ready to shed some tears , and maybe underline some deep words (that's if you read the way I do).. @ OP, I smiled when I saw the 'happily ever after'.. C.N.A has never been such writer (call her a realist, and I will agree).. That's for the likes of Danielle S. Her books are so thought provoking that they make you feel something, leaving you at an edge. I remember when I first read 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I took out my frustrations on everybody as I threw my dad off balance with questions about the civil war.. The explanations were gory .. I even had thoughts of doing her a mail (I searched for it) to ask series of questions but along the line, I had to caution myself.. 'It's her work and she has the right to write it the best way she feels.' Good read.. 3 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by Nobody: 8:51am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Exaggerated? @olabs059 Please if something did not happen to you, dare you not call people's dire experiences Exaggerated. You don't have that right. And no, we don't seclude or hate a certain divide because of what happened in the past, we relive it, and hold each other's hand praying it will not happen again. SAY NO TO WAR AGHA AJOKA!!! 11 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by bennymark(m): 8:58am On Apr 30, 2017 |
Bridget95: accept my apologies and sympathy for the inhumane treatment and trauma you might be very correct with what your father told you (remember there will be 'heresay') but your last paragraph clearly defines the current agitation for a perceived Independence 'the reason why the president still remain wicked to igbos' the above statement you made is just a belief and not necessarily reality. Biafrans should learn to preach peace. holding on to past grudges will only improve stagnation I can bet my life that if GEJ had won again. there won't be this burning zeal for separation, it is all about the fact a northerner is ruling. you guys should always remember not every northerner is a Muslim or hausa/fulani. if we read the same Bible as Christians, how come you hate us so much because we are northerners with no affiliation to Gowon nobody is saying there should be no agitation for a perceived segregation, but doing it without sentimental attachments will yield faster results. 3 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by oglalasioux(m): 9:00am On Apr 30, 2017 |
I believe 90% of that book has something to do with the author's extended family's experience during the war. There might be some fiction in the areas of sexual intimacy between the characters but I see the greater part of the book as true story. (There are places events and locations didn't match but it's still a great work.) Kainene's disappearance, in my opinion, is the central theme of the book. 3 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by willibounce1(m): 9:02am On Apr 30, 2017 |
padiga047: Where you there to witness the war? So if someone says the different stories are being exaggerated, why should you doubt. Your forefathers could have exaggerated to get sympathy and probably foster hate towards others. Whatever the case may be, the war shouldn't have happened in the first place. War is not nollywood movie where you expect both waring sides to be fair to the other. Indeed we all need to SAY NO TO WAR because when it happens, there is always no mercy. 4 Likes |
Re: My Take On Chimamanda "Half Of A Yellow Sun" Does Anyone Feel The Same Way To? by tunchi014(m): 9:03am On Apr 30, 2017 |
She may hav been cruel, bt d reality of dat war was worse, d most conservative reports places d death toll @ 1.5 million biafran,s killed during d war (excluding those killed afta 4rm an outbreak of hepatitis & residual violence) somany lost luv,ed ones who till date cant b categorically said 2 hav died (my family lost 4) bt lucky 4 me my dad fought, survived & gave birth 2 me. feel free 2 research d pre, post & war years 4rm d following books, pogroms & d civil war by alexander madiebo, there was a country by chinua achebe, because i am involved by odumegwu ojukwu, in biafra africa died by john forsythe, half of a yellow sun chimamanda adiche. 1 Like |
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