Things Fall Apart

Why is it that we only listen to one side of the story? The first person or side you listen to, you end up agreeing with. What if the other person was right? In the book, “Things Fall Apart”, there is two sides to the book. The europeans (white people) come in and try to colonize the village. Okonkwo has a terrible thing happen to him when his adopted son is murdered. During the funeral of the adopted son, Okonkwo shoots and kills a little boy, getting exiled to his mothers homeland for seven years. There, he learns about the white people and their religion, which is the end of the Igbo people. The white people jail the Igbo leaders until the village can come up with ransom money. They talk about going to war with the white people, but a court

However, when Okonkwo retaliate back against society, there are dire consequences. In his first act of defiance, Okonkwo strikes down his adopted son, Ikemefuna, killing him. Even though the elders instruct him not to do so, or even partake in the killing, Okonkwo meets the consequences of his action with extreme guilt and depression. While this lasts for weeks, Okonkwo’s next act of defiance causes much more severe consequences. He is sent into exile, turning him into what the opposite of what he wished to become, a disgrace like Unoka. His goals of not being his father goes to ruins as he further caters for his personal needs. However, even when returning back to the society from which he was exiled, his personal emotions still get in the way. When angered at “the white man’s power”, Okonkwo “drew his machete…Okonkwo’s machete descended

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe takes place in pre-colonized Nigeria. The Ibo people are dismayed and thrown into confusion by the arrival of the white colonists. However, no one is more upset than Okonkwo, a great leader in the clan. Although his decision to conform to his culture’s beliefs about masculinity was not justified, Oknonkwo’s true greatness as a leader will never be realized because his life takes a devastating turn. His aggression puts his family at risk when he shoots at his wife during the week of peace, kills Ikemefuna, and accidentally shoots a fellow clansman.

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.

Okonkwo's quick temper and philosophy leads to his downfall. Okonkwo accuses his wife of negligence and severely beats her during the Week of Peace. He pays retribution, but the clan is shocked. Next, Okonkwo kills a boy he had taken into his home in fear of looking like a woman to his fellow clansmen, despite the advice of an Oracle. Lastly, he accidentally kills a fellow clansmen and is banished for seven years in accordance with village

Okonkwo wanted and strived to be the opposite of his father. Okonkwo put all his work and effort into trying to avoid his fate but ended up being the same in the end. He couldn’t stop fate from happening when the white people came and took over his land and knocked him back down to the status like his father had. Okonkwo is unable to adapt to the new society in which he was nothing just like his father has been so he took matters into his own hands and killed a messenger that appeared at the meeting. After realizing that his clan would not offer assistance and let the other white men go, Okonkwo fled. He knew if he went back he would be imprisoned and possible executed. Okonkwo is a proud man and takes matters into his own hands to control his fate. Knowing it was a grave sin to take your own life in his culture, Okonkwo controls his own destiny by hanging himself before giving the white man the option of killing him first.

After his exile he returned to a changed Umuofia. White men, missionaries moved into Umuofia, and Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye, decided to join them. Okonkwo got into many confrontations with the church, because he felt as if strangers were ruling him. In the end he decided to commit suicide. This was an extremely weak act on his part. He let all of the true Ibo people down, and merely did what he could to escape all of his troubles.

The novel, Things Fall Apart, composed by Chinua Achebe, is about the climb and the fall of a Nigerian man name Okonkwo, and the Ibo culture. Okonkwo was a respected, convincing pioneer in one of the nine towns in the Ibo social demand; he was similarly a wrestling champion. Okonkwo has distinctive assets for his character that could be viewed as inadequacies or flabbergasting character properties. Some of his qualities by then shape into weaknesses through the progress of the novel. Okonkwo has a fear of deficiency, a fear that stems from his father who was saved and improvident. His dad, Unoka, was an extremely poor man who couldn't sustain his own family. In his town he was a fool since he acquired cash from individuals and never paid them

Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe is a fiction novel about the Ibo tribe of Nigeria. Set in the early nineteen hundreds, the novel tells the story of a tribesman known as Okonkwo. He was a very strong, emotionless, and honorable man that held all the characteristics of a man that the Ibo society would admire. However, Okonkwo’s father Unoka represented everything that would be despised within the community. Unoka was very poor and weak. The only thing that Unoka could be trusted to do was fail to pay his debts. These two characters acted as dramatic foils for each other to emphasize the best, and worst characteristics of a man in the Ibo tribe.

Culture plays an important role in society, it is what makes a people unique. In the book Things Fall Apart, author Chinua Achebe wrote the book using proverbs and traditions of the Ibo to reveal the uniqueness and wisdom of the culture, which ends up getting interfered with another culture.

In 1958, Chinua Achebe, originally named Albert Achebe and recipient of Nigeria’s National Merit Award, published a novel titled Things Fall Apart. In this novel, colonialism is effectively depicted in the Igbo society through the perspective of Okonkwo, the protagonist. Moreover, in the Igbo society, changes were seen in certain aspects of their lives like in their customs, beliefs, and religion. I will explain self-created interpretations based on how both colonists and Malcolm X’s followers could have read and interpreted the text differently.

The author of “The Women of Things Fall Apart, Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie’s Headstrong Storytellers,” Anene Ejikeme, claims that Chinua Achebe successfully introduces Ibo culture to a Western audience; however, even Achebe would agree that there cannot just be one story to represent such a complex society, and Ejikeme argues that Things Fall Apart is too centered upon the male’s reaction to English powers. Therefore, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Headstrong Historians” offers a much-needed female perspective of the same introduction of European colonialism. In Things Fall Apart, women are most often displayed as “silent and docile,” and Okonkwo’s wives and daughters most often disappear into the background as Achebe

“Things Fall Apart” is a tragic novel, which is set in the Igbo community of Africa. Chinua Achebe, who is the author of this novel, portrays how an ambitious, well known, and respected African’s life named Okonkwo falls apart. He was a man that had a lot going for him. He had great intensity as well personality. Striving for success throughout his entire lifetime, he had fulfilled his desire to become rich and famous, but after realizing that life was not going his way and how he planned, he committed suicide.

Around the late 1800s, African communities resisted against the attempts to colonize their countries and force foreign domination . In Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, colonizers come to the villages of Umuofia and Mbanta. The title is a reflection of the effect of colonialism on the novel’s protagonist, Okonkwo. He fights to stop the colonizers from taking control of his village. Throughout the novel, he struggles to not become lazy, like his father, and works desperately to keep his the culture of his village unbroken. In the novel, colonizers are represented in a dominant way to demonstrate the power they gradually gained over the Igbo people.

After lots of thinking the book I chose is Things Fall Apart. Things Fall Apart is written by Chinua Achebe, an african writer. Things Fall Apart is a fiction, children's literature book. Things Fall Apart was published by William Heinemann Ltd in 1958. It takes place in one of nine villages in Nigeria, Africa.