Things Fall Apart Customs

The year of violence The story of thing fall apart is about the Protagonist named Okonkwo, and this takes places in a Nigerian village of Umuofia in the 1880s, before any missionaries have arrived. The way the Ibo people worship their god is by sacrifice, communal living, war, and magic. This show how the village from Umuofia is the strongest and their style of live and how they maintain their strength. Okonkwo is the Protagonist of the story.

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

Based off the book Things Fall Apart, the videos we watched in class, and the poem “The White Man’s Burden”, the white man’s burden of spreading Christianity was more harmful than helpful. In both the book and the film the African Tribes were already fully functional as a whole. They had systems in place such as forms of government, art, social systems, and economic systems. After the whites came to convert them, things started to fall apart and become chaotic.

I believe the title “Things Fall Apart” mostly comes from what happens towards the end of the novel. In the novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo’s life is what is initially falling apart. When this happens he is also taking his whole tribe down with him and they are suffering as well. His tribe is known as the “Igbo tribe”. However, there are other reasons, many reasons, for Okonkwo’s life and tribe to fall apart and here are just three.

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

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.

Caelan Barranta Mr.Miller English 10: Period 3 10/23/14 Think Carefully Before Proceeding An Analysis About the Behavior Similarities of the Tortoise and Okonkwo Throughout Things Fall Apart, stories are told as a part of tradition and culture. In Chapter 11, Ekwefi tells a story to Ezinma about a tortoise that asks a bird to give him feathers so he may fly up to a feast in the sky. However, when he arrives, he greedily eats all of the food and leaves only horrible scraps left for everyone else.

A people that is stripped of its culture is a people stripped of its identity. To have a civilization, society, or tribe, a group of people must have a culture which includes laws and punishments, stories that teach lessons, and distinctions between social classes. This is shown in the novel Things Fall Apart, which was written by Chinua Achebe, when, towards the end of the novel, european colonists invade the Ibo tribe and begin replacing their culture. Consequently, the Ibo tribe is stripped of its cultural identity because their laws and punishments, stories that teach lessons, and distinctions between social classes have all been replaced by the european colonists. Every civilization, society, and tribe has developed and enforced a

Everyone encounters conflict, but not everyone would act the same because of personal experience. How we each decided to act on the conflict can foretell our success or failure. How people decided to act can also have an effect on the people around us, by either physically affecting them or by changing how they think about you or a situation. In short, conflict leads to decisions and decisions impact our lives, meaning conflict shapes us.

THEME One key theme of Things Fall Apart is that “you don’t ever have to hide your feelings.” I think this is an important theme for the book because in the book Okonkwo gave off this harsh aura because he didn’t want to come off as weak. His lack of feelings sent Nwoye away and killed Ikemefuna. Another key theme of Things Fall Apart is that “you shouldn’t let fear dictate your fate.” Okonkwo killed his adopted son, Ikemefuna, because he was afraid that if he did not participate in the killing, he would be thought of as weak.

Traditions and customs is one of the majorly used themes in the book,Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe. In the three parts of the books we see how this theme is used and how much it indicated that people valued and respected their traditions and customs. There were certain measures that would be taken if anyone in the clan failed to follow this traditions and if they broke it, they would receive the appropriate punishment. They had different traditions, for example when Okonkwo accidentally kills one of his clansmen on ( page 124). Obierika and some other clan members set Okonkwo’s house on fire demolished his wall, killed his animals and destroyed is barn.

In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart we meet Umofia’s greatest wrestler and warrior alive – Okonkwo. Things seems to be alright until Okonkwo accidentially kills a clansman and his life begins to fall apart. He is facing a very tragic fate and that depends on three factors. Okonkwo’s fear of weakness and failure leads him to death.

Traditions are found all around the world, they are found in different religions, cultures, and societies. In Things Fall Apart, traditions strengthen the tribe and helps them avoid war, without tradition the tribe would fall apart. One tradition in the Igbo tribe is to present a kola nut to a visitor or guest, “ ‘I have kola,’ he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest” (Achebe, 8). Also, when you offer a kola nut you are giving respect to that person. It seems the Igbo tribe is built around respect, so a lot of the traditions revolve around showing your respect for others.

One piece of literature that has changed my views about other cultures is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart has opened my eyes to the culture of the Igbo culture and has proven to me that Africans are more than just sick, starving, uneducated people. Due to Stereotypes, and other forms of media, I would have never guessed that the Africans have such a sophisticated culture and complex society. In addition to Igbo culture, Things Fall Apart has also opened my eyes to other cultures as well. In chapter 25 of Thomas Fosters How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster explains that to understand literature you must be able to read through the lines.

The novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe is a story about personal beliefs, customs and also about conflict. There is struggle between family and within culture and it also deals with the concept of culture and the notion of the values and traditions within a culture. The word culture is Latin and means to cultivate. To cultivate has several meanings; it can mean to plow, fertilize, raise and plant, to win someone’s friendship, woo and take favor with, to ingratiate oneself with, to better, refine, elevate, educate, develop and enrich. In Things Fall Apart all these words are accurate in describing the culture of Umuofia. A culture is an