#half of a yellow sun

[litsnaps]

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[strykerlancer]

“Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from “Half of a Yellow Sun.”

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[joemawle]

for @madmanknowledge ♥

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[quotessentially]

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

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[diaryoftruequotes]

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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[waltz-of-words]

"Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?"

—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

#quotes #books #book quotes #half of a yellow sun #chimamanda ngozi adichie

[pulchrasilva]

Half of a yellow sun is a great film because at first it's just kinda silly like "wow you four need help but whatevers going on between you is WAY more fun" kinda silly and then the Horrors begin and they don't fucking stop

#im gonna throw up. anyway #half of a yellow sun #i can really see why my english teacher loved adiche so much holy shit. thats one of those 'i have been profoundly changed' kinda stories #i cried multiple times and that never happens

[screen-kisses]

More Thandiwe Newton. She was one of my first screen crushes in MI:2

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[theamethystvampiress]

Joseph Mawle as Richard Churchill in Half of A Yellow Sun.

Screencaps by me.

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[soph9898]

when Adichie wrote '...the alternative vision, that death was nothing but an endless silence, seemed unlikely. There was a part of him that dreamed, and he was not sure if that part could ever retreat into an interminable silence. Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know' I felt that

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[litsnaps]

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[zelihatrifles]

Half of a Yellow Sun

It cannot be easy to write about war. War is ugly and it drains hope. It shows you how fragile human lives and achievements really are. I have not been through a war so i will not make any generalised observations of tragic wisdom like an imbecile. But what i have been through is quite a number of war novels, based off real events. And i certainly don't remember anything so acutely painful as what Adichie captures in her debut novel.

Starting off with an ordinary Igbo boy gaping in awe at his master's English pronunciation, you feel like you are right there beside Ugwu as he makes sense of his new surroundings. There are names of so many local dishes and you are bound to feel ashamed that you know of so many American and English dishes but no Nigerian ones. When Adichie switches to Olanna's point of view, you feel restless because Ugwu must have been nicer, but no, Olanna is the perfect next narrator. Then, Richard too. Richard tries hard to translate his love for the Igbo-Ukwu art into a great novel, but war and violence make him realise that writing about the sufferings is not his place. So, when Ugwu's is the story that lasts, nothing is more fitting.

Adichie hesitates neither to write of explicit love nor of graphical violence - she writes of the vulgar and delicious female bond that exists between women/ sisters, and she writes of a white man battling ingrained prejudices and shyness to be comfortable in a country whose birth he was present in. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over, but it will not go as ge expects. Olanna makes some startling decisions, and you love and hate Ugwu, and feel sorry for him because he is left with no one at all.

You feel angry at those who have suffered but still make others suffer without any qualms, and you feel scared when you learn what humans are capable of. As Chinua Achebe wrote, 'here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers... Adichie came almost fully made'. The half circle of the rising sun on the Biafran flag stays in your mind as a sign of both hope and defeat, and even when you forget what happened in the book, you remember exactly how you felt.

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[snswllr]

"Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?"

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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[quotessentially]

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

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[incorrectpizza]

does someone here want to explain half of a yellow sun to me bc i am struggling to read for class and im just so done with a l l the infidelity and affairs yet still have another 200+ pages

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[waltz-of-words]

“You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.”

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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