once wrote, ‘Good things, when short, are twice as good.’ This compressed kind of pleasure is abundantly evident in [The Thing Around Your Neck]. Adichie has attracted a lot of attention in her relatively short career...This book will show you why." ...
The Thing Around Your Neck 电子书 读后感 评分☆☆☆ I would recommend “The Thing Around Your Neck” in this short-story collection. If you like the idea of “the exotic”, this story will show, once again, that “the exotic” exists nowhere else but in your own mind, and as always,...
只读了The Thing Around Your Neck(日译:なにかが首のまわりに)这一篇。究竟是什么缠绕在了你的脖子上让你感到窒息呢,带这个问题又读了一遍我还是没能得到答案。意料之中的结局,你没学会give&take,没能在这个梦想的国度找到自己的容身之地。 0 有用 章丸小鱼子 2020-12-08 21:12:15 看完作者的ted ...
What is the thing around your neck? It’s what shapes who she was.It is her homeland, her colored skin, her accent, her past and her memory. They constantly reminded her of who she really was. Although in her memories what she could recall was how poor life used to be there, she ...
He seems to be doing the method-acting thing, playing ‘scary Ki-Tek,’ but no one’s really buying. He’s making zero sense. They all just look around. MUN-KWANG (to Chung-Sook) What’s wrong with your husband? CHUNG-SOOK (sighs) I apologize on his behalf. Now let’s all...
“So everything is going nicely and you don't need the money very badly. Well, I'm glad to hear that.I like to know that all is well with old friends.” “Oh, Rhett, for God's sake……”she began desperately, her courage and control breaking. “Do lower your voice. You don't...
To study this short story collection in more detail, you can check out the accompanying lesson,The Thing Around Your Neck: Summary & Analysis. This lesson is composed of the following objectives: Analyze the stories of the collection Discover the author of this collection ...
Good thing there are no dinosaurs roaming around Golden Gate Park. Or are there? The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton on display at the California Academy of Sciences next door wasn’t always a skeleton. Perhaps T-Rex had impaled himself on a safety pin sculpture and that’s why his skeleton is ...
手搭住我的肩,抓紧了 Put your arm around my neck. You gotta hold on, okay? 跟我合作一、二、三 You with me, Ed? Stay with me. Okay. One, two, three. 让我扶你起来,你要用力 You gotta help me get you up. Ed, you gotta push a little bit. 你为什么不让我帮你? Ed, why won'...
Harry kept looking around. Everything looked so strange, somehow. "You all right, Harry? Yer very quiet," said Hagrid. Harry wasn't sure he could explain. He'd just had the best birthday of his life -- and yet -- he chewed his hamburger, trying to find the words. "Everyone thinks...