ENG 102 Overview of Adichie and Valenzuela Biography Essay

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For Essay, choose two writers featured in our English 102, research their work, and explore the following questions:

  1. Do you see evidence for biographical influences in each writer's work? That is, does the work seem to be based on or informed by lived experience? If so, how?
  2. Is the writer trying to entertain or to educate? If you think the writer does both, how does the writer use entertainment to educate?
  3. How does each writer anticipate and work with the communicative needs and expectations of his or her audiences to achieve that purpose? For this question, you will need to find out when and how the work was first published or performed, and what else was going on at the time.
  4. How is each author's purpose reflected in his or her work? Explore possibilities like the set-up, the protagonists and antagonists, the tone, or any other feature of that reveals the work's themes.

To complete this assignment, you must conduct some additional research and make use of at least four new references, material that has not already been assigned as course readings. In addition, you must also integrate some ideas from literary criticism. You can use ideas from one source in Module 5 or from Chapter 3 in Literature for Critical Reflection, “Writing about Literature: An Overview”.

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Overview of Adichie and Valenzuela
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria, Enugu in 1977. She studied medicine
at the University of Nigeria and studied communication and political science. Purple Hibiscus
was her first novel that was set on political turmoil in Nigeria in the 90s. The narration was from
the view of 15-year old Kambili Achike which won awards for the best book and also the prize
for fiction. Her second novel was called ‘Half of a yellow sun (2006) and was also fictional.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie literary establishments have been celebrated in her books
Half of a Yellow Sun (20...


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