Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe. How does the setting affect Jonathan's actions in the
excerpt?
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.
O Jonathan returns to Enugu to help the thousands of
other people clean up the war-torn area.
O Jonathan works on rebuilding his house early in the
morning with the materials he finds on the ground.
O Jonathan works on the other houses in the
neighborhood before moving on to fix his own house
later.
O Jonathan returns to Enugu early to collect debris
before others in the war-torn area do.