What can you most clearly determine about the story’s setting from this excerpt?
read the excerpt from "civil peace" by chinua achebe.

jonathan iwegbu counted himself extraordinarily lucky. "happy survival! ” meant so much more to him than just a current fashion of greeting old friends in the first hazy days of peace. it went deep to his heart. he had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings—his head, his wife maria’s head and the heads of three out of their four children. as a bonus he also had his old bicycle—a miracle too but naturally not to be compared to the safety of five human heads.

the story takes place right before a war.
the story takes place in the middle of a war.
the story takes place right after a war.
the story takes place years before the start of a war.

The correct answer and what I most clearly determine from the story setting of Chinua Achebe's "Civil Peace" (1971) is that C. The story takes place right after a war.

While the first few words "Happy survival" may sound misleadin and indicate that the story takes place before or in the middle of a war, in fact there are far more elements that indicate that the story is set after the war. It is said that these words were more than just "a current fashion of greeting old friends in the first hazy days of peace". This implies that the other character is not wishing that the narrator survives the war, but is in fact "congratulating" him for his survival after the war ended.

The narrator even states that "He had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings"

So it is safe to sya that the correct answer was C. The story takes place after a war, probably inspired by the Igbo survival of the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War

honestly this is the biggest mood ever, i couldn't relate to this more

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