Analysis

In these short paragraphs, we present you the main elements we will thoroughly discusss in our analysis of the story “Tomorrow Is Too Far” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

The short story has a flashback structure. The plot is fragmented, using present and past events which overlap and which are presented from the character-narrator’s perspective in the second person.

The characters presented or mentioned in the story are the narrator, Nonso (the narrator’s brother), Dozie (the narrator’s cousin), the narrator’s mother, father and grandmother, and the grandmother’s neighbors. Some of these characters are absent from the action or episodic and they contribute to building the social setting.

The narration features a combined point of view as it presents the narrator’s perspective as a child and as an adult. When focusing on the story's language, initially the narrator’s tone comes across as detached because the story is told in the second person, but it gradually becomes more personal and empathetic.

Read the full analysis of “Tomorrow Is Too Far” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiein what follows.