The Wrestling Match | Overview & Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Chapter Abstracts

Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief, but can serve to be an excellent refresher of the text for either a student or teacher.

Chapters 1 and 2 Abstract

* The book opens on an evening in a Nigerian village with a woman yelling at her ungrateful teenage youth.
* The youth, Okei, has lost his parents in the Biafran War and has been residing with his aunt and uncle since then.
* Okei drifts through life with...
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