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    it. In the village of Umuofia men gain their reputation through bravery, hard-work, or wrestling. Having a good reputation in Umuofia can give someone a powerful position and glorious rewards like multiple wives. Churchill’s idea appears in, Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe, when the main protagonist, Okonkwo, gains reputation but later destroys it through his actions. Okonkwo was well respected throughout the nine villages in Southern Nigeria but the inadvertent action of killing a boy

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    In the book “Things Fall Apart” written by Chinua Achebe, there are many characters that faced the challenge of having two different cultures. The character that stood out the most is Nwoye. He faced a very difficult challenge of not being accepted by his hometown’s culture. He wasn’t accepted by his father because he was very feminine like his mother. Nwoye’s father is Okonkwo, and he expects his children to be masculine and strong like him. He expects his children to be hard workers and earn their

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    The central theme in Achebe Chinua's novel, Things Fall Apart, is masculinity. The main character, Okonkwo has an obsession with being masculine and refuses to look weak. From the beginning of the novel, it is clear that his idea of his own self worth and his masculinity are strongly interrelated. This obsession is a result of his unsuccessful father, Unoka, who is very cowardly and fears the sight of blood. Okonkwo makes a vow at a young age to be nothing like his father so he adopts opposite ideals

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    Things Fall Apart takes place in 1890, throughout the initial days of colonialism in Nigeria. Achebe portrays the Igbo culture with its transformation since its contact with the British colonialists. The literary works about this period included stereotypical ideas of Africans representing savages who were oppressed by the British. Things Fall Apart is a counterexample to those writings as a postcolonial novel that breaks the stereotypes and stays unbiased, but has the focal point on the Igbo values

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    Nineteenth Century Nigeria is when the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, transpires. The protagonist, Okonkwo the greatest warrior of the time, is a masculine figure. The fear of becoming his father, Unoka, coerces him to have an extremist attitude towards his wives and his son, Nwoye. His father, who is lethargic, motivates him to become everything his father isn’t. Consequently, Okonkwo takes this impulse to an extreme level. Weakness does not appear in his vocabulary. He has an anger

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    From the novel, Things Fall Apart, a cultural universal can best be represented by the concept of reputation. The definition of reputation is the common perspective of how the general public portrays an individual. In Umuofia, the concept of reputation revolved around masculinity. The Ibo culture considered two qualities of a true masculine: having the ability to provide for his family and having the skills and traits such as courage and bravery essential for war. A particular exemplar would be the

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    Things Fall Apart Essay Prompt 1 The imperialism brought up many hard times for the imperialist and the natives of the lands that the imperialist wanted to conquer. The book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe is set in the first waves of European imperialists in Nigeria; they acted in a way that Chinua wrote them in some opinions are highly stereotyped in what they did. When the Europeans industrialized Africa, anyone that did not have the Christian religion was deemed “uncivilized”. The

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    Peter Ntourntourekas Professor Joe Mealey EN 3515 20 September 2017 Okonkwo and Fear of the Feminine Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo, a tribal African yam farmer, through trials and tribulations that change both him and his tribe. The Umuofia clan values traits such as strength, confidence, crop success, and honor. Okonkwo exemplifies everything that the clan wants in a man, and he was well aware of it. He thrives on being the antithesis of the image of his father, Unoka, who was viewed

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    Throughout the literary works of Things Fall Apart, The God of Small Things, and The Hungry Tide, they all share the universal theme of gender inequality. Although Things Fall Apart is African based and the other two novels Indian, the three demonstrate similar struggles women are forced to overcome strictly due to being female. Throughout time, women have been considered the inferior gender, constantly being dominated by men. One can link this to men generally being the more physically stronger

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    Okonkwo’s thirst for power is greater than just doing it for publicity and for the people. Okonkwo endless hard work to gain titles is personal for him. Okonkwo wanted to be nothing like his father Unoka since he was a child. Unoka resembled all the things Okonkwo was not such as weak, a liar, cheap, couldn’t take care of his own family, and considered a women to the rest of the clan members. Okonkwo rarely speaks about

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