How does the setting affect jonathan's actions in the
excerpt?
read the excerpt from "civil peace" by chinua achebe.
of course the doors and windows were missing and five
sheets off the roof. but what was that? and anyhow he had
returned to enugu early enough to pick up bits of old zinc
and wood and soggy sheets of cardboard lying around the
neighbourhood before thousands more came out of their
forest holes looking for the same things.
jonathan returns to enugu to the thousands of other
people clean up the war-torn area.
jonathan works on rebuilding his house early in the
morning with the materials he finds on the ground.
jonathan works on the other houses in the neighborhood
before moving on to fix his own house later,
jonathan returns to enugu early to collect debris before
others in the war-torn area do.