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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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Chapters 25-30 Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part Four: "The Late Sixties"

Chapter 25 Summary

This chapter marks the beginning of the fourth and last part of the novel, whose narrative takes off at the point where Part Two ended. After Olanna and Odenigbo’s wedding is attacked by aircraft, Olanna is traumatized as disturbed by loud sounds such as thunder. As she becomes increasingly more paranoid, Olanna demands that Ugwu constantly protect Baby. After Baby comes down with an illness, Olanna takes her child to the hospital and gains a prescription for antibiotics, though the hospital has none to spare. 

Olanna asks her friend Mrs. Muokelu if she can find any antibiotics: “Do you know where I can buy any antibiotics, my sister?” (331). Mrs. Muokelu claims that she does. Olanna eventually receives antibiotics and provides them to Baby, but by this point the child has stopped eating entirely and Olanna fears that she is dying. Olanna travels to a local disaster center to get some food supplies, but by the time she gets there the center’s food supplies have run out. One of the officials at the center, who is named Okoromadu, recognizes Olanna and sneaks her some rations of dried egg yolk. The next day, Okoromadu also sneaks Okoromadu a container of corned beef.

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