• She describes her parents as never holding Nnamabia responsible for his actions or allowing him to experience consequences.
The Question and Answer section for The Thing Around Your Neck is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
• She describes her parents as never holding Nnamabia responsible for his actions or allowing him to experience consequences.
“When, at eleven, Nnamabia broke the window of his classroom with a stone, my mother gave him the money to replace it and didn’t tell my father.” (Paragraph 8)
Seeing cruelty and injustice inflicted on another person has the ability to change someone.