Goody Nurse leaves when Hale prepares to examine Betty for signs of the Devil because Hale says the process may cause the child pain.
Putnam admits that she sent Ruth to Tituba so that Tituba could conjure Ruth's dead sisters in order to find out who murdered them. Putnam states that Tituba can conjure spirits. Hale tells everyone in the room that he will not examine Betty unless they accept the fact that witchcraft may not be the reason for her ailment: "I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of Hell upon her." The Putnams describe Ruth's condition to Hale and ask him to examine her, but first Hale prepares to look at Betty. Hale tells Rebecca Nurse that people in his town know her good deeds well. There is no love like first love.Reverend Hale arrives at Parris' house. I thought the love story between Ifemelu and Obinze when they are young is raw and beautifully written. Her blog, in America about race and culture forces her to realise she never thought of herself as black before and really only saw black as her identity when she came to America. I really liked the contrast between Ifemelu’s life in Nigeria and her life in American, how vastly different they are. The sense of place in the novel is pretty amazing. I felt like I was really there, with the characters, living and breathing and seeing everything they did. One of the most enjoyable things about this book is how it brings the culture of Nigeria to vivid life. I loved, absolutely loved Americanah (my second read by the author, I also loved Half of a Yellow Sun).
The category is ‘a book about an immigrant or a refugee’. I read this for 2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge. (4 th Estate, 27 February 2014, borrowed from my library) But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?įearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.Īs teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love.
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