Tooth-Shaped Pendant

In the story "Jumping Monkey Hill" this tooth-shaped pendant represents Ujunwa’s belief that she has to be something other than what she is in order to impress the other writers at the conference. Even though this tooth-shaped pendant is really only plastic Ujunwa tells Isabel it is real ivory after Isabel makes a comment about the way that faux ivory looked real in the story “Jumping Monkey Hill.” Ujunwa uses the necklace as a way to play on an earlier comment by Isabel that Ujunwa had to be of royal stock because of her beautiful bone structure.