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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
John Steinbeck said, “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal”
People who wage wars can come up with innumerable reasons for the war and there might be people who support either side but, in the process, many innocent people lose their lives and the ones who are affected the most are ladies and children.
This book talks mainly about the Biafra war (Nigerian civil War, 1967-1970), the war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra. The Igbo people of Nigeria wanted a country of their own and called it BIAFRA. The novel depicts the effect of war on the lives of people, rendering them destitute and causing emotional turmoil. They run around trying to save their lives, looking for food, water and shelter.
I do not like reading books based on war, not because I dislike it but because it is very disturbing to read about how many innocent lives are lost, how many ladies were raped and how children lie wailing for food. The camps provided for these refugees almost always lack sanitation and harbor lots of diseases. So, either people are killed or die at such camps.
Chimamanda creates all these scenes in this book, where in the name of war civilians lose their loved ones, and men on both sides are brutal and resort to heinous crimes and sexual violence.
The main character in this book is Ugwu, a manservant at Odenigbo’s house, who is a Mathematics professor and a revolutionary and who is in a relationship with Olanna, who has a twin sister Kainene.
I liked the character Olanna as she is shown as an unwavering, committed person who is helpful by nature and believes strongly in educating society. She even thinks of sending Ugwu to college. She protects him as much as she can during the war.
It’s the tale of people around them and how the war changes their lives drastically. The author beautifully depicts the dehumanization of the so-called ‘evolved species’, how under the influence of pressure, humans tend to make horrendous mistakes, and how humans can easily justify any crime under the pretext of war. Apart from war scenes, she portrays the thoughts of people, relationships, love, hatred, wealth, greed and life and death as such. An overall depiction of normal lives being rendered useless due to the war.
This book got much acclaim and won the Women’s prize for fiction 2020
People who wage wars can come up with innumerable reasons for the war and there might be people who support either side but, in the process, many innocent people lose their lives and the ones who are affected the most are ladies and children.
This book talks mainly about the Biafra war (Nigerian civil War, 1967-1970), the war fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra. The Igbo people of Nigeria wanted a country of their own and called it BIAFRA. The novel depicts the effect of war on the lives of people, rendering them destitute and causing emotional turmoil. They run around trying to save their lives, looking for food, water and shelter.
I do not like reading books based on war, not because I dislike it but because it is very disturbing to read about how many innocent lives are lost, how many ladies were raped and how children lie wailing for food. The camps provided for these refugees almost always lack sanitation and harbor lots of diseases. So, either people are killed or die at such camps.
Chimamanda creates all these scenes in this book, where in the name of war civilians lose their loved ones, and men on both sides are brutal and resort to heinous crimes and sexual violence.
The main character in this book is Ugwu, a manservant at Odenigbo’s house, who is a Mathematics professor and a revolutionary and who is in a relationship with Olanna, who has a twin sister Kainene.
I liked the character Olanna as she is shown as an unwavering, committed person who is helpful by nature and believes strongly in educating society. She even thinks of sending Ugwu to college. She protects him as much as she can during the war.
It’s the tale of people around them and how the war changes their lives drastically. The author beautifully depicts the dehumanization of the so-called ‘evolved species’, how under the influence of pressure, humans tend to make horrendous mistakes, and how humans can easily justify any crime under the pretext of war. Apart from war scenes, she portrays the thoughts of people, relationships, love, hatred, wealth, greed and life and death as such. An overall depiction of normal lives being rendered useless due to the war.
This book got much acclaim and won the Women’s prize for fiction 2020