Analysis and Evaluation of 'Things Fall Apart'.

In the book Things Fall Apart, there are many things that fall apart. The major aspect that fell apart is the clan. There are many major foreshadowing events that showed the decline of the clan, including the locusts, the accidental death of a boy by Okonkwo forcing the exile of his family, and the arrival of the white missionaries. When the missionaries arrive, they start to oppress their religion onto the people of the clan. They are seemed to be crazy, and almost disrespectful of the clan’s customs on religion. As this is happening, Okonkwo is caught in an exile for him and his three wives and children. The exile is caused by an accidental killing of a boy by Okonkwo. After they return to Umuofia after seven years, they are blindsided by

Language is a powerful tool. It is the key to understanding an alien culture, and is thus, ultimately, the downfall of mutual ignorance. Mark Twain’s famous words, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,” are therefore only half-true. Travel without an effort to understand local customs and beliefs, or

Things Fall Apart: A Response to the District Commissioner I am Obierika, and I am a part of the Ibo tribe of Umuofia which is in Nigeria. I have been through a lot with my tribe and sometimes I do not fully agree with the actions my tribe completes. I am

I loved this book so much. There is so much action and is so much better and exciting with so much amazing detail and description. This is one of my favorite books ever. When you read it, you don’t want to put it down and it makes you feel like you are with the characters in the book and you know them so well. I recommend this book to anyone who can read at this level.

EA 3.2 Literary Analysis: character analysis Who are you? Who am I? These are some of the questions we ask each other when identifying culture. In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, the main protagonist faces many difficult changes in his ibo culture. Okonkwo is perceived as a strong, strict man who never likes to show emotion because he fears that it might make him seem weak. Throughout, the book it shows Okonkwo facing his fears and developing as a character. The cultural collision challenges Okonkwo’s identity, as a person because it identifies his persona and his beliefs, whereas if someone takes that from him, he fears his obligation in life will fall short once the white men take everything he worked hard to built.

Okonkwo Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a novel about a man in West Africa. It tells about his triumphs and trial ultimately leading to his demise. It explains how the “white man” came into his country and took over. It show you how the “white man” mad things fall

“Things Fall Apart” is a good book, however it is one with a slow beginning. The book's introduction is not necessarily interesting until chapter four where he beats his wife during the week of peace. I think there was a certain culture shock that the only thing wrong with this beating was the time he decided to do it. It says “Okonkwo was not the man to stop beating someone half-way through, not even for fear of a goddess.”(21) He beat his wife even though he knew he would later be punished by the goddess. After that incident their culture became so evident and so particular that the story was highly alluring.

Things Falls Apart tells of the tragedy that takes place when people are out of their place. The first half of the novel contains relatively routine events in the life of Okonkwo. It is not until the second half, when the Europeans arrive, that his life is significantly disrupted. Achebe says that, to Conrad, it is very

For the most part, the novel was very enjoyable. One aspect of it that I loved was that the storyline was extremely intense, which always compelled me to find out what would happen next. For example,

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe It is always interesting to me to see what types of roles women play in popular books or novels of western history. The role of women in Things fall apart is more of a background story but their significance is deeply rooted in this book. Women play fundamental roles in education, religion and the social balance according to Achebe. In this paper, I am going to detail these roles giving references from Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Novel to show how significant they actually are. You will be surprised to learn that they are very significant indeed even in a traditional African culture which at the time was being polluted by colonialism and other western influences of demoralization and demonization through missionary works.

Okonkwo’s violent behavior escalate to the point in which he attend to shoot his own wife just because she mumble some words in his back. This doesn’t mean he is a bad person. Later in the chapter is found that he is very fond of his daughter Ezinma, display feelings of love and affection but he consider those emotion as weakness to himself

In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is portrayed as a respected and determined individual whose fatal flaw eventually works against him. Throughout the novel the readers are shown that Okonkwo has many of these Characteristics because he is obsessed with the idea of becoming just like his father. This becomes his flaw in the novel that puts him into exile and makes it hard for him to adjust to the changes that were made with in his village.

     During a burial ceremony for one of the tribesmen, Okonkwo accidentally kills the dead man’s son. The prescribed punishment for this is exile for seven years. Okonkwo and his family then move to his mother’s old tribe to serve his exile.

There are 3 stages of the novel, “Things Fall Apart”. The first stage is when Okonkwo gains his glory. In this stage Okonkwo gains his glory by wrestling and honoring his people, he also gets married and has children, who all respect him. The second stage is about Okonkwo having internal conflict with the crime he committed, accidently killing a boy. Okonkwo is banned from his people, so he moves away, but in all the years that he is banned he planned his return. Finally, the last stage is on Okonkwo’s return and him trying to get rid of the new religion. When Okonkwo returns he immediately starts to rebuild and tries to get rid of the foreign religion. Despite Okonkwo’s hardworking return, Okonkwo still has internal conflict and commits suicide.

Achebe tells us this story through examples of imagery, theme, and symbolism. He combines it all to tell us the story of Okonkwo and his