The Thing Around Your Neck - Tomorrow Is Too Soon Analysis.

The narrator of Tomorrow is Too Far began the story with her remembering during the last summer she spent in Nigeria. The time is almost two decades later but she recalls exactly how Grandmama would let her brother Nonso climb the fruit trees to collect the coconuts and would get to shake the branches even though she was a way better climber. Grandmama taught her brother, Nonso to pluck the coconuts and didn't show the narrator, because "girls never pluck coconuts" (Adichie Ch 11 page 2). This reminds me of Nwoye’s perspective in Things Fall Apart; feeling inferior to his dad’s opinion of him. In Tomorrow is Too Far Gone the narrator, is told from a very young age that her skills don't matter well at least matter as much as the skills and the potentials of her brother. Which is similar to how Nowye feels about Okonkwo towards Ikemefuna who wasn’t his blood but was essentially adopted into the family and adopted into the role of favorite son and his favoritism towards Ezinma his sister. Nwoye was beat by his father in hopes it would make him stronger and more of a man. Grandmama let Nonso take the first sip of the collected coconut milk when everyone gathered even though their cousin Dozie was a year older than him. When the narrator questioned her on her decision grandmama explained that Nonso would carry on the family name, while Dozie wouldn't. In the next paragraph the narrator’s brother dies and here the