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· The following version of this story was used to create the lesson plan: Adichie, Chimamanda. “Apollo.” The New Yorker, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/apollo

· The narrator, Okenwa, visits his retired parents in Enugu two times a month.

· Okenwa’s parents seem smaller, they stoop and have started to look alike and even have a similar menthol smell from the Vicks VapoRub they each use.

· When Okenwa comes to visit, his parents, both in their 80s, are either sitting on the porch or watching Animal Planet.

· Okenwa’s parents had developed “a new, baffling patience for incredible stories” and once told him that a former neighbor in Abba had vomited a live grasshopper, “proof that wicked relatives had poisoned him” (1).

· Okenwa’s father had once told him Chief Okeke killed his teenage housemaid and “used her liver for money making rituals” (1).

· Okenwa’s parents would have...

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