Things Fall Apart

The nurture of a child is what governs what the child will be like when he/she gets older. In the Ibo community, the men were not responsible for the upbringing of children and if anyone was to blame if a child acted up in public it was the women’s fault for not properly teaching the child the customs

The world is filled with many different types of societies and cultures. This is due to the fact that many people share dissimilar beliefs and ideas, as well as diverse ways of life. People lived under different circumstances and stipulations, therefore forming cultures and societies with ideas they formulated, themselves. These two factors, society and culture, are what motivate people to execute the things that they do. Many times, however, society and culture can cause downgrading effects to an assemblage if ever it is corrupt or prejudiced. Society and culture not only influences the emotions individuals have toward things like age differences, religion, power, and equality but also the actions they perform as a result.

The novel “Things Fall Apart” written by Chinua Achebe, is a tale based on the traditional beliefs and customs of an Ibo village during late 1800’s Africa. Through the telling of this story, we witness the remarkable depth of Igbo culture through its functions of religion, politics, judiciary and entertainment.

The novel "Things fall apart" by Chinua Achebe describes the social and cultural traits of a culture based on the principles of labor and masculinity, conformity and kinship and finally on solid juridical system.

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 apart.

Speech and language play a significant role in the development of every culture. The traditions of speech are passed on and preserved throughout the years of their use in every society or community around the world. The Ibo tribe described in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart is no stranger to this phenomenon. The Ibo culture, much like all other cultures around the world, has its own unique methodology and patterns of speech that directly reflect the culture's lifestyle and values. Additionally, the Ibo people had no written language.

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

Two cultures, two kinds of people, two different ideas of what is right. All around the world there are thousands of cultures living side by side, their realm of influence dictated by boundaries. But what happens when one culture oversteps their boundary? A cultural clash. When two cultures clash, there is normally conflict followed by a wide range of results, both negative and positive. In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the cultural clash caused by European imperialism in the Mbanta Tribe caused a widespread negative reaction in the community. However, in this hatred of the white people and fear of losing their own culture some Mbanta Tribe members, like Nwoye, found opportunity.

Many times in life, we experience or suffer a conflict between what we “ought to do” and what we “want to do.” In the book Things fall apart, there are many examples of these kinds of events, and a couple real life events that happened to me. One event that happened in the book was when Okonkwo beat his wife, and my real life event was when i had to decide to go to one’s friend house or another. The first conflict of facing many conflicts in life is when Okonkwo beat his wife on the week of peace in the book “Things fall apart.” In the book, the week of peace, is when no one gets in an argument, or fight and they celebrate the whole time.

In the novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe uses symbolism and dialogue in order to reveal tradition and challenge of tradition to the Igbo people. Dialogue is an important device throughout the novel. It allows the reader to gain first hand knowledge of what Okonkwa, the main character who is a leader and influential person in the Igbo tribe, was trying to portray. Okonkwa is passionate about keeping the tribe and his people together. He is faced with a challenge of raising up a young generation within his tribe, "We came together because it is good for Kinsmen to do so.

New Insight Into the Culture Things Fall Apart gave me a new perspective on the life of Africans before and during European colonization. I could relate to the life of Okonkwo and gained new insight on him when he shot at his second wife, Ekwefi. Okonkwo's fit of rage lead him to be impulsive and this was something I could relate to.

A human, by definition; “of or pertaining to the social aspect of people” (Merriam Webster). By composition merely “65 percent oxygen, 18.6 percent carbon, 9.7 percent hydrogen, 3.2 percent nitrogen” (madsci.org), and an abundance of other trace elements. However, when you describe humanity as a whole, the perspective changes and describing it gets much more complicated than a simple definition, or a matrix of elements. This is because humanity can not exist without change. Change is the driving force behind all that is and will be, as well as defining the past. For this reason alone, the colonization of the Africa, as described in “Things Fall Apart”, was to the natives benefit. A stagnate society will not

Question ( 2 ): Discuss Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe 's “Things Fall Apart” is a tragic hero.

Chinua Achebe’s, Things Fall Apart, is a story of a traditional village in Nigeria from inside Umuofia around the late 1800s. This novel depicts late African history and shows how the British administrative structure, in the form of the European Anglican Church, imposed its religion and trappings on the cultures of Africa, which they believed was uncivilized. This missionary zeal subjugated large native populations. Consequently, the native traditions gradually disappeared and in time the whole local social structure within which the indigenous people had lived successfully for centuries was destroyed. Achebe spends the first half of the novel depicting the Ibo culture, by

Women are often thought of as the weaker, more vulnerable of the two sexes. Thus, women’s roles in literature are often subdued and subordinate. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, women are repressed by an entrenched structure of the social repression. Women suffer great losses in this novel but, also in certain circumstances, hold tremendous power. Achebe provides progressively changing attitudes towards women’s role. At first glance, the women in Things Fall Apart may seem to be an oppressed group with little power and this characterization is true to some extent. However, this characterization of Igbo women reveals itself to be prematurely simplistic as well as limiting, once