Half of a Yellow Sun is concerned with class and race and ethnicity which seem to play the biggest role in the relationships of characters to one another. Ugwu is only thirteen when he begins working as a houseboy for Odenigbo, but he is one of the most intelligent and observant characters in the novel.
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Half of a Yellow Sun, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Colonialism and Nigerian Politics. Half of a Yellow Sun mostly deals with the Nigerian Civil War (also called the Biafran War), which took place between 1967 and 1970.
Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like The Horrors of War and Sectarian Identity Crises. Plot Summary Chimamanda Adichie’s second book, Half of a Yellow Sun, is set during the Nigerian Civil War that tragically occurred in her home country during the 1960s.
Half of a Yellow Sun - SuperSummary Study Guide SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 59-page guide for “Half of a Yellow Sun” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 37 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written.
Characterizing Sex in a Novel: Chimamanda vs. Dibia by Jumoke Verissimo In essay, I try to explore how sex is used for progressing emotional balance and, sometimes, imbalance in the characterisation of a story in two novels, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Jude Dibia’s Unbridled.