As I was reading, deep inside, “Half of a Yellow Sun” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, I developed a feeling that I have read these before.
This North versus South Civil War, this North crushing southern ambition of cessation, this southern aspiration of preserving their ways of life - all I had read before.
The feeling turned into thought.
On a stroll, during sunset, the reference appeared as a flash.
Yes, it was “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell.
The protagonists and other characters were all very unique and different in those books. There was no comparison of Scarlet O’Hara in the entire book by Ms. Adichie. But Kainene was somewhat comparable to Rhet Butler.
But there are too many similarities.
Other than what I have just mentioned in the beginning, both the novels were based on civil war torn nations a century apart.
Ms. Mitchell’s novel revolved around the eighteen hundred sixties in the United States. Ms. Adichie’s novel was rooted in the civil war torn Nigeria of nineteen sixties.
I was so drawn into this pair, I cannot stop mentioning the one along with the other.
Do you have same feelings about any pair of books? Please in comment or by dropping your blog link in the comment.
