refer to “Apollo” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Passage Analysis: Analyze the following passage. Make specific reference to word choice and literary techniques, such as setting, narration, and symbolism. Your response should focus on key themes and (where applicable) characters introduced in the extract. Be sure to identify the title of the story and its author. Each response should be approximately 150 words in length, and quotations should be followed by MLA-style in-text citations. Double-space your writing.
A) Later, my parents drove to the pharmacy in town and came back with a bottle of eye drops, which my father took to Raphael’s room in the boys’ quarters, at the back of the house, with the air of someone going reluctantly into battle. That evening, I went with my parents to Obollo Road to buy akara for dinner; when we returned, it felt strange not to have Raphael open the front door, not to find him closing the living-room curtains and turning on the lights. In the quiet kitchen, our house seemed emptied of life. As soon as my parents were immersed in themselves, I went out to the boys’ quarters and knocked on Raphael’s door. It was ajar. He was lying on his back, his narrow bed pushed against the wall, and turned when I came in, surprised, making as if to get up. I had never been in his room before. The exposed light bulb dangling from the ceiling cast sombre shadows.
“What is it?” he asked.
“Nothing. I came to see how you are.”
He shrugged and settled back down on the bed. “I don’t know how I got this. Don’t come close.”
But I went close.
