Question

#45. In Chimananda Ngozi Adich’s 2013 novel, Americanah, one of the characters “wanted to know about day-today life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but he read novel after novel and was disappointed: nothing was grave, nothing serious, nothing urgent, and most dissolved into ironic nothingness.”
Based on what you read this semester, is this statement accurate? Evaluate the characters and plot of two or more works studied this semester. In other words, do the pieces of American literature we study present serious day-to-day experiences of the early Americans? Their shames? Attractions, etc? Support your claims with evidence drawn from each text you select to analyze.

Answer 1

In the text that we read about the past and history of America, we get to know sometimes the culture of the people of that time but the day to day experiences of the people of that time are not given.

Explanation:

In the American literature, the culture of the people who were a part of the past of that society is given sometimes. But not always is that section of culture, habits, attractions etc given in the literature.

Moreover the day to day experiences of the people of the past is not provided. It provides a general experience that whether the society was suffering or was growing but the day to day experiences is not present in the literature.