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Vultures

Vultures. By Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930 where his father worked for the Church Missionary Society. After university, he studied broadcasting at the BBC then worked in Lagos for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service.  

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Vultures

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  1. Vultures By Chinua Achebe

  2. Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930 where his father worked for the Church Missionary Society. After university, he studied broadcasting at the BBC then worked in Lagos for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service.   He is one of the most admired African novelists who write in English. His novels trace Africa's transition from traditional to modern ways. He writes with a mission, and he believes that any good work of art should have a purpose - an idea that stems from the oral tradition of storytelling in Africa. He is interested in speech and his novels present a wide range of language, from the English spoken by the Ibo to different levels of formal English. He also writes poetry and essays.   He married in 1961 and has four children.   He became an honorary professor at the University of Nigeria in 1985.  

  3. Chinua Achebe chose to write the first half of his poem about Vultures because they are seen as such revolting creatures. He also calls them a: dump of gross feathers. They eat the insides of a dead animal’s bowels He says they look like a: ‘Pebble on a stem’

  4. The vultures eat the contents of the bowels which would mainly be…….. Excrement !

  5. But even though the vultures are so revolting and disgusting they.. Love Each other

  6. I love you Mrs Vulture. I Love you too.

  7. Over 6 million Jews were killed in Belsen and other similar camps. Their bodies were burned in incinerators. Belsen was a concentration camp set up by the Nazis, in World War 2.

  8. The Gas Chambers The Jews were led into a large room and told to strip for a shower. The room was sealed to ensure that no-one escaped and when the people were dead the bodies were shovelled out and sent to the incinerators. But…. Instead of water, poisonous gas was pumped into the room.

  9. As the bodies burned in the great ovens smoke could be seen leaving the large chimneys in the camp. People in the camp could constantly smell what they thought was roasting meat. It was the smell of ‘human roast’ Those working in the camp would have this smell of dead human beings ‘clinging to’ their ‘nostrils’

  10. Vultures Humans Now who do you think are the animals?

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