Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart

In “Things Fall Apart”, the Author Chinua Achebe wrote the book to show the real perspectives of the Igbo people.The difference from “Things Fall Apart” to other books about the Igbo people is that they are told by outsiders. Achebe book is a fiction about a main character name Okonkwo, who is an influential clan leader in Umuofia who experienced from british influence.

According to Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian writer who believes in the power of story, if one traps oneself into the narrow world of “single story” about another person or country, that person would risk a crucial misconception. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is considered as the most authentic response to contemporary Western’s literature depiction of Africa, which usually obligates the readers to only look at the “single story” that is written with personal stereotypes under an ethnocentric point of view. As a result, in his famous Things Fall Apart, Achebe contrasts the perspective of the colonized on imperialism with that of the colonizing in order to provide an alternative to the Western literature’s “single story” of Africa.

Born in the town of Ogidi, in Eastern Nigeria which was a British colony at the time. Although Chinua Achebe first language was Igbo he was educated in English as a result of that he wanted to learn more and focus on his language and background to tell the story for many others like him. In the novel, “Things Fall Apart”, Chinua display that language is what uniquely separate each person by introducing beliefs, speech rhythms, and the Igbo language. Achebe's use of Igbo language, speech patterns, proverbs, and richly drawn characters creates an authentic African story that effectively bridges the cultural and historical gap between the reader and the Igbo. Say you were one of the characters in the novel Things Fall Apart and were faced with some of the obstacles similar, will you hold on to your beliefs or sway

Things Fall Apart is a literary novel written and published by Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, or Chinua Achebe, in the 1959. Chinua was born on November 16, 1930 into a Nigerian village named Ogidi. Things Fall Apart is based in Nigeria around the year 1890. The book addresses topics including, “Nigeria’s white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people” (SparkNotes Editors). The book also contains several controversial topics involving, Christian missionaries being labeled, “foolish”, the subject matter of death and suicide, and the physical and verbal abuse that the women received. Chinua well portrays the “macho” and chiefly attitude of the African men in the Ibo society. But the question is, how exactly are women treated within the society? The well respected Okonkwo is a prime example on exactly how men treated women during this time period.

Chinua Achebe wrote the book Things Fall Apart in the year 1958, a time when Africa was undergoing drastic changes, and experiencing new things. Achebe wrote his first book, Things Fall Apart in a way that reflected what he had experienced and what he believed in. This is evident in the many parts of the book, Including Nwoye’s conversion to Christianity, Igbo storytelling and folklore, and with the tribal leaders of Umofia and their thoughts on the missionaries.

In order to justify the slave trade, Europeans made Africans look like primitive people through literature. Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, said in an interview that the main reason for writing this novel was to encourage other African writers to write about their past in order to refute the stories of the Europeans, claiming that Africans are uncivilized animals, but also shows that the Ibo were not a perfect society, highlighting the parts of Ibo culture that are considered heinous crimes today, in order to prove that there were no truly civilized societies. In his novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe effectively educates his readers about the culture and practices of the Ibo during the imperialistic age in order to show

Chinua Achebe, in her novel Things Fall Apart, depicts a story of not only a man using great strength and aggression to disguise his mental weakness, but also a story of great Nigerian tribal traditions that strech back many generations. Achebe accomplishes this by using literary devices such as details and rhetorical questions in specific scenes of the story.

       The book Things Fall Apart successfully expressed how Chinua Achebe had succeeded in writing a different story. It pointed out the conflict of oneself, the traditional beliefs, and the religious matters of the Africans. Throughout the novel, Chinua Achebe used simple but dignified words and unlike other books, he also included some flashbacks and folktales to make the novel more interesting and comprehensible. Things Fall Apart was about a man named Okonkwo, who was always struggling with his inner fear although he was known for being a strong, powerful, and fearless warior. He feared of weakness, and failure more than the fear of losing

More than those of any other African writer, Chinua Achebe’s writings have helped to develop what is known as African literature today. And the single book which has helped him to launch his "revolution" is the classic, Things Fall Apart.  The focus of this essay includes: 1) Achebe's portraiture of women in his fictional universe, the existing sociocultural situation of the period he is depicting, and the factors in it that condition male attitudes towards women; 2) the consequences of the absence of a moderating female principle in his fictions; 3) Achebe's progressively changing attitude towards women s roles; and 4) feminist prospects for African women. In the context of this study, the Igbo people whom Achebe describes will

Chinua Achebe, birth name Albert Chinualumongu Achebe is a well-known author and educator best recognized for his portrayal of social injustice and perplexity at the hands of Western ideas and beliefs towards traditional African lives and cultures. Achebe was born in 1930 into a Christian household in the Igbo community of Orgidi, southeast region of Nigeria. His academic excellence early on in life led him to outstanding opportunities of scholarships and would later open doors to positions such as working for Nigerian Broadcasting Services and Metropolis of Lagos. While attending the University of Ibadan, Achebe began writing stories leading him to discover his passion for African cultures and world religions. While Achebe had been writing for some time, he published his first novel: Things Fall Apart in 1958 which caught the attention of many individuals across the globe. Throughout ‘Things Fall Apart,’ Chinua Achebe thematically exposed fundamental elements of traditional roles placed to indicate the fate of individuals of Nigeria. The experiences of the fictional character – Okonkwo – clearly depict the interactions and customs Africa faced during the European colonial presence on the continent itself.

Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe a Nigerian novelist, poet professor and a critic born in Ogidi in 1930. Things Fall Apart was his first novel and won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007. Achebe’s novel is extremely popular in modern African Literature. Through illuminating author’s purpose, skillfully decided formal diction, and the substantial influence of secondary characters, Chinua Achebe has produced an award winning novel that enlightens the reader about authentic Nigerian history.

Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, once said,“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”. Written in 1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is about the pre-colonial Nigeria; moreover, the later introduction of Christian missionaries. Things Fall Apart is a tragedy that focuses on the life of the protagonist, Okonkwo, and his subsequent inability to adapt to the Christians. Tragedies usually share common traits such as a short time span, a tragic hero, catharsis, and the hero's downfall. Some common characteristics used in Things Fall Apart are the hero's tragic flaw, the hero's downfall, and catharsis.

Chinua Achebe is one of the great authors hailing from the African continent. He has published a number of novels and is widely praised for creating a new genre of African literature. His debut, and most famous novel, Things Fall Apart, has never been out of print, sold more than twelve-million copies, and been translated into over fifty languages (“Chinua Achebe” The Economist). The characters in the novel are purely fictional but the traditions and struggles faced by the characters are those of Achebe, Nigeria, and former African colonies as a whole. Things Fall Apart, as well as other works of Chinua Achebe, give a unique view on the Nigerian culture and show its people in a more positive light than other, previously written novels. For this Chinua Achebe was indeed a great and important author.

Chinua Achebe’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, is a post-colonial novel that details the violent story of the British’s colonization of Nigeria at the end of the 19th century from an African perspective. Published just before Nigerian independence, the novel narrates the fall of the highly respected village leader Okonkwo as well as the destruction of the Ibo culture. Achebe’s use of English, the language of the colonizer, put Things Fall Apart at the center of the great language debate in African literature. Should African writers use English, a colonial language forced upon them by their oppressor, in writing literary works or do they have a duty to write in their native tongue? Can English, a foreign language, properly convey the African experience? In his essay, “The African Writer and the English Language”, Achebe answers these questions and defends his stance to use English. He argues that African writers “should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience” (Achebe 433). He refers to his use of English in his writing as a “new voice coming out of Africa, speaking of African experiences in a world-wide language” (433). In his novel, Achebe has been successful in following this theory of English. Through the use of words, rhythm, proverbs, and oral stories of the Ibo language, Achebe has transformed English into a language that conveys Ibo culture and ultimately the African experience.

Chinua Achebe published the fictional account Things Fall Apart in 1958. It was written to provide a new perspective on the African culture and the societies of the pre - colonial villages in Africa. He tried to dispel stereotypes and overshadow the writers who previously persuaded the world to shun Africa and its culture. Things Fall Apart told the story of the village of Umuofia over a period of many years and how they behaved and what happened with white foreign missionaries entered their lives and started the village of Umuofia on the path to falling apart.