The Thing Around Your Neck

PART B: Which detail from the story best supports the answer to Part A?

PART B: Which detail from the story best supports the answer to Part A?
  • When he stole the exam questions from the study and sold them to my father’s students, she yelled at him, but then told my father that Nnamabia was sixteen, after all, and really should be given more pocket money.” (Paragraph 8)
  • “He seemed to enjoy his new role as the sufferer of indignities, and he did not understand how lucky he was that the policemen allowed him to come out and eat our food” (Paragraph 24)
  • “But the next morning a security man came to tell my parents that Nnamabia had been arrested at a bar with some cult boys and was at the police station.” (Paragraph 13)
  • “‘I shouted at the policeman. I told him the old man was innocent and ill, and if they kept him here it wouldn’t help them find his son, because the man did not even know where his son was.’” (Paragraph 66)
    part a is "Seeing cruelty and injustice inflicted on another person has the ability to change someone."
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‘I shouted at the policeman. I told him the old man was innocent and ill, and if they kept him here it wouldn’t help them find his son, because the man did not even know where his son was.’” (Paragraph 66)

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