AIMS The aim of this work entitled "Identity Crisis in Chimamanda Adiche's Americanah and Richard Wright's Native Son" is to find out or study why an individual's self formation process undergoes severe difficulty or danger. ... SCOPE OF STUDY In writing this essay, two primary texts will be used, Adichie's Americanah and Wright's Native Son. ... Colonial powers came to foreign states and destroyed main parts of native tradition and culture; furthermore, they continuously replaced them with their own ones. ...

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King Hamlet's ghost says to his son, "if thou didst ever thy dear father love" then he needed to "revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." ... In the to be or not to be soliloquy during the first scene of Act III, Hamlet quotes, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all/ And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought" While being exiled to England, hamlet thinks his procrastination is a result of "some craven scruple/ Of thinking too precisely on the event". ... A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain se...

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Younger children should not work dangerously long hours, at least one father filed suit to stop a law that would have prevented his two sons from working their normal jobs at a cotton mill in North Carolina as described in document G. ... Through her book The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, as quoted in document C, she showed the deplorable conditions of America's working children and their total loss of childhood. ... In his book entitled The Crisis, quoted in document I, he lamented the fact that America was still full of prejudice and laws that were an insult to humanity. ... Unf...

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In this quote, Dangarembga makes note that Nyasha's parents are not to blame for their controlling demeanor, because the settlers also oppressed them during colonization. ... Only after her son's birth does Nnu Ego begin to feel like a "real woman" (Emecheta 54). ... With both sons pursuing further education abroad, Nnu Ego never receives the comfort she expected them to provide. ... In the Rhodesian culture, a son is more valuable to a family because he remains as a family member until death. The son is responsible for caring for his parents in their old age. ...

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"Anh said, My son, this money will take you abroad to study. ... In the eyes of the Vietnamese, Andrew is considered successful because his career and American lifestyle; in the quote it becomes apparent that his success was due to his mother's exploitation of local women. ... Evidence of this can be seen when he is angry about his bike handling, so he hits some of the natives with his handlebars or wheels and then refers to them as, "monkeys," (66). ...

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In some additional reading besides the text, I found one source that relates the point of his mother and father not having a good relationship with each other, and that his mother was unusually and over-protectively close to her son. ... - (that is exaggeration on my part since I don't know the exact quote) I think that after that, Alexander killed him. ... Had he continued in his habit of dividing power among the Natives he conquered, and continued to place Greek overseers there, perhaps there would have been no limit to his conquests. ...

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