2021年5月12日水曜日

The Case for and Against Love Potions by Imbolo Mbue

The Case for and Against Love Potions

Imbolo Mbue is a native of Limbe, Cameroon, and a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia Universities, Mbue lives in New York.

The writer is clever because she attracts the reader with a "love portion" as a MacGuffin. 
The writer presents two examples which use the effect of a "love portion": Wonja uses it in a wrong way and ends up with becoming mad while Gita wins her husband Ikolo by using the love portion. 
The two are well balanced. 
This is a humorous and amusing fairy-like story. 
This story seems to be meant to children, but it was  published in "New Yorker." I don't know why. The message it has is great enough to be published in a well known magazine?

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