Victims Vs Heroes

There are several factors that make an individual or grouped characters to either be victims, heroes or both depending on the different type of circumstances. Victims and Heroes are completely opposing ideas but they also relate together in making sense of the fact that after someone becomes a victim of an event, some characters decide to put their foot forward for themselves and others to make a difference. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s collection of short stories The Thing Around Your Neck explores the main context of ‘Victims’ and ‘heroes’ in many areas of her short stories. Most of the characters in Adichie’s short stories are both Victims and heroes, however there are rare situations where the characters are victims but not heroes. Adichie