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24 wrz 2018 · Illustration by Agata Nowicka. “Flights ,” by the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead), is exciting in the way that unclassifiable things are exciting—that is to say, at times ...
Our Reading Guide for Flights by Olga Tokarczuk includes Book Club Discussion Questions, Book Reviews, Plot Summary-Synopsis and Author Bio.
Things Fall Apart is all about the “collapse, breaking into pieces, chaos, and confusion” (Alimi 121) of traditional Igbo culture that suffers at the hand of the white man’s arrival in Umuofia along with his religion. The views about life that the white men have are totally different from the views that the Igbo have.
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe First published in 1959 (One of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim) Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things Fall Apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. --W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"
Written by Elizabeth Miller. The novel Flights is dedicated to the theme of travel. It consists of separate short stories, essays and travel notes, united by a common plot, which is travelling. A total amount of fragments is 116, but they differ one from the other in length – some are of just few sentences, some are of more than 30 pages.
Flights. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
Pepé is a sweet, gentle, and lazy young man with a feminine mouth, a fragile chin, untidy black hair, and gangly arms and legs. He always carries his father’s knife with him, often stabbing the earth with it to keep it sharp and rust-free. Behind the barn, he flicks his wrist and throws the knife through the air, sticking the point of it into a nearby wooden post over and over to entertain ...
