The Thing Around Your Neck Lesson Plan

Describe Grandmama's treatment of the narrator in "Tomorrow Is Too Far". Name a few different ways that Grandmama reinforces the message that Nonso is superior. Why do you think Grandmama teaches the narrator that girls are inferior even though Grandmama is a woman herself?

Grandmama consistently favors Nonso over the narrator. She teaches that he deserves more food by giving him second helpings of food and always letting him have the first sip of coconut milk. She also teaches that he is more capable by teaching him how to pluck coconuts but only teaching the narrator how to be a caring wife who feeds her husband. Students may also note the fact that Grandmama...