"Find one example of intertextuality in a story from The Thing Around Your Neck, be it from Shakespeare, the Bible, a fairy tale, mythology, or another text you're familiar with. Then explain how this example of intertextuality offers insight into the text."

 The chapter named, "Cell One" in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck could possibly be shaped in a way to resemble Luke 15:11-32's "The Parable of the Lost Son" in the Bible. In the first chapter of the novel, I feel as if the mother represents the father, Nnamabia represents the younger brother, and the narrator represents the older brother in "The Parable of the Lost Son". Nnamabia gets into trouble and seems as if he's the least responsible out of the siblings. However, his mother always comes to his rescue and this is noted by the narrator who speaks on the defense in which their mother takes for the older brother. However, at the end of the chapter I made the connection to the ending of "The Parable of the Lost Son". Once they got Nnamabia released from jail, his mother did not think of anything wrong in which her son could have possibly did. Instead she said one thing on the ride home, "Did Nnamabia want us to stop at Ninth Mile and buy some okpa?" This reminded me of the father throwing a feast for his younger son who was "lost and now found".

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