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"Cell One"

The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. The Thing Around Your Neck. Anchor Books, 2009. Paperback version.

• This story is set in the university town of Nsukka, Nigeria, and it is told in the simple past, in the first person voice, by an unnamed narrator who speaks in the first-person plural a lot of the time, as she speaks for her family.

• The narrator of "Cell One" says that her house has been robbed numerous times; the first time was by the neighbor Osita, who took the TV.

• The narrator says that the second time was during her parents’ trip to their hometown.

• The narrator and her brother Nnamabia went to church by themselves, but Nnamabia left after ten minutes, then came back just before mass ended.

• They arrived home to find that the house had been pillaged...

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