Chinua Achebe s The Of The Sea Again Home Again,...

â€Å"Home again, home again, jiggety-jig† (Wikipedia). No longer permitted to dwell in the land of one’s birth and family a dismal and forlorn experience of bitterness and sorrow whether one expelled from one’s country by political force or by self-preservation. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term exile defined as the state of castaway and barred from one s native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. A parallel established between Achebe’s Okonkwo, the name implies male pride, stubbornness, and his forced exile for self-preservation and the exile of Chinua Achebe, himself. Americans in the United States have difficulty comprehending the idea of expatriation from their homeland as the Constitution of the United States guarantees many rights not evident in other countries. Countries with governing bodies having mindsets of dictatorships and monarchies, predominantly found in the young yet ancient peoples of Africa, wh ich according to Wallechinsky has eight of twenty worst tyrants in 2006. Many have sat in the back of an old rattling pick-up truck for one reason or the other—seldom considering Achebe’s viewpoint, â€Å"†¦facing what seemed the wrong way, I could not see where we were going, only where we were coming from† (Achebe 1-2). Departing from the familiar, births comprehension, and fear, while the anxiety increases so does the insecurity—home forever burnt into the mind’s eye remains forever embedded in the heart’s eye. One’s