![]() ![]() She identifies firstly with being Ugonna’s mother and with his loss there is a sense that the protagonist has lost her own identity. Though the protagonist like her husband is also a journalist. Not so much because her husband has fled to America but because she has lost Ugonna. The reader aware that her life will never be the same again. It is as though the protagonist’s world in the matter of a few days has changed dramatically. ![]() This may be important as it is possible that Adichie is suggesting that the protagonist is very much alone at a time when she needs those who she loves to be close to her. Not only has the protagonist of the story lost her son Ugonna in a brutal death but she has also lost her husband due to his political beliefs. ![]() Taken from her The Thing Around Your Neck and Other Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Adichie may be exploring the theme of loss. In The American Embassy by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie we have the theme of sacrifice, loneliness, change, freedom, frustration, identity, bravery, loss and grief. ![]()
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