'Our Sister Killjoy Study Guide: Analysis'. Next Section Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Previous Section Quotes How To Cite in MLA Format Tabor, Mason, Fatima Malik. Someone from the community is currently working feverishly to complete this section of the study guide. Our Sister Killjoy : or, Reflections from a black-eyed squint. In the end, when she returns to Africa, the question is left for the reader to answer: Does the reader blindly believe that life in Germany would be better than life in Ghana? For Sissie, life was not as simple as that. She decides to elaborate some of the complicated struggles that she endures in her life, which they share no doubt. When she speaks at the African student union meeting, she is also taking her stand on the novel's own hypothetical soapbox. Kunle's character is a voice of warning that she not make the decision lightly, because he reminds her that life as an expatriate has its difficulties. Without clear indications about where her values should be, she is having to make existential decisions about her life, without understanding the consequences. That doesn't mean necessarily that individualism or tribal life are necessarily better or worst than each other, and that's the hardest part for Sissie. Does she honor herself more by returning to the painful, poverty-stricken life she worked so hard to escape, or does she learn to be independent in the European sense of the word? The Our Sister Killjoy Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. Now in Europe, she sees that tribal community is not nearly the same in Germany, for instance, so she is at a true dilemma. She is a sister to whom? To her tribe in Ghana, whom she left behind to see Europe. Sissie's name is an indication that her character and personality has been formed in a community.

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