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Achebe narrates the story from a third-person limited perspective focused on Jonathan Iwegbu, a victim of the civil war. How might the story be different if the same events were narrated from a different perspective?
Achebe wrote both fiction and nonfiction. What is gained or lost by exploring the experiences of individuals after the civil war in a short story rather than an essay?
By Chinua Achebe