Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short tale “A Private Experience” deals about ethnic and religious conflict. With fourteen different sections, the mind map I made looks inside the story. The Physical setting of the story is set in Kano Nigeria, shining light on a riot between Nigeria’s two main ethnic groups, the Hausa, and the Igbo. The majority of the story was set in abandoned store shared between two characters. The emotional setting was intense, fearful, and confusion. My images include a photo of convenience store along with a map of Nigeria. The protagonist of “a private experience” is Chika. We see her in both her present and future self, making her a dynamic character. Because of the way the riot alters her perceptions of the other lady, she is dynamic. The story’s antagonist is the riot itself. The short story’s plot begins with two women hiding together in an abandoned store to avoid the riot. They quickly discover more about each other by spending time together and attempting to stay safe, and they also uncover why the riot started in the first place. When the rioting stops, they part ways, with Chika keeping the woman’s scarf as a memory of their experience. This image portrays the two females, which is why I chose it. The incident that started the whole riot were outraged citizens involving Hausa Muslims and Igbo Christians. The image I chose portrays the riot. The climax of the story was when Chika came back to the abandoned store only to discover that her leg was bleeding. The image I chose is of a girl with a hurt leg, just as the protagonist had. The theme that I thought of after reading this story was “even in the midst of religious strife, there will be some who remain friendly.” Despite Chika and the woman’s differences, they managed to remain friendly and keep each other safe in the abandoned store. They didn’t allow their disagreements to get in the way of their friendship. The image I chose of two women helping each other just as Chika and the woman did. The conflict of the story is person versus society. The story’s fundamental conflict is the disparity between two ethnicities and cultures, which leads to writing and the two main characters are caught in the midst of it all. The image I chose represents that. The stories POV is third person limited omniscient. Readers aren’t exposed to the Muslim woman’s thoughts and emotions, allowing us to focus on the main characters thoughts and actions. The foreshadowing in a private experience was when the woman told Chika that Nnedi what’s going to end up in a safe place. The images that I chose shows a safe place but also danger in the second. There is situational irony in a private experience when the woman tells Chika how the store is a safe place to hide only because it’s small. It’s ironic because of all things happening on the outside. The image shows a sign of a safe place. In this story, there was a lot of symbolism. One of them was the scarf, which, in the end, signified the two women’s friendship. Chika kept the scarf because she wanted a keepsake of the woman, the riot, and their time together. Chika was also helped by the woman’s scarf when she was bleeding. The image is as a headscarf, representing the one in the story. I picked psychological as my literary critique perspective. To learn more about the character, we examine his or her psychological motivations. Even though there is only one riot going on, different characters have a variety of reactions. As a result, by employing this lens, it will be easier to assess the personalities. For this presentation I chose the colors yellow and brown. Even though the two colors can be similar in a way, they’re both also different. Just like Chika and the woman. The shades of these two colors are dull because overall, the story isn’t really bright and happy, it’s more on the sad side.

marked by: Lorraine