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The protagonist, okonkwo, of Achebe's novel serves as the living symbol of the values and standards of the tribal culture and his silent death necessarily symbolizes his culture's failure to compete with the invading culture and its subsequent death.... okonkwo's Failure to Accept the Change for the Better okonkwo also represents of the author's affinity for the African indigenous culture.... For okonkwo, the colonizers are the agents of destruction....
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The novel tells Okonkwo's story and his tragic death following the missionaries' arrival as the fiction there in documents a world destroyed by the missionaries.... Achebe's Things Fall Apart Name University Course Instructor Date Things Fall Apart is a story that speaks about two related stories that focus on the main character okonkwo who lives in Ibo village in Nigeria.... The tale of an unforgettable fight among society and its people, features okonkwo's struggle with the village, while the second, is about the culture clash and okonkwo's world destruction with the arrival of the missionaries from Europe....
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Things would not seem so tragic if these cultures were remotely alike.... hellip; This becomes evident when we watch okonkwo and those around him cope with their changing culture.... His society is in danger and okonkwo wants to resist the change that he can see coming over the horizon.... The novel also touches on the nature of man as we watch okonkwo change because he cannot handle what the missionaries are doing his land to those around him....
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okonkwo and Obierika are speaking jokingly, each suggesting something even more outlandish and outrageous.... After the white man comes to okonkwo's village, and sets up a mission there, the characterization of the Europeans in the novel changes (representing the change in attitudes of the tribe)....
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For example, okonkwo's successful transformation through personal achievements, from the son of one of the lords of the clan is praised proverbially.... For example, okonkwo's successful transformation through personal achievements, from the son of an agbala (poor and wretched man) to one of the lords of the clan is praised proverbially thus: "Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered.... okonkwo had clearly washed his hands and so he ate with kings and elders"....
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Though the charismatic and exemplary union spokesman, Ibrahima Bakayoko, is the protagonist in the story, the novel has no true hero except the community itself.... The essay “The Feminine Voice of Africa” discusses the real-life story of a railroad strike on the Dakar-Niger line that lasted from 1947 to 1948....
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A chaotic situation is created where so many tragic things happen.... Another tragedy being when okonkwo beheaded the man who was in charge of the five men who were sent from the court to stop a gathering of the clansmen, with a machete.... The other messengers escape, and none of the clansmen attempts to stop them and at this point, okonkwo realizes that they will not go to war, and Umuofia will surrender....
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Book Report/Review
In the paper “Evolution of African Culture in Achebe's Things Fall Apart” the author analyzes the novel about the life of a heroic anti-hero, Okonkwo, who both mirrors and rejects African culture.... okonkwo is the history of African culture, but he also exists in its margins.... okonkwo is the history of African culture, but he also exists in its margins, the margin between the Igbos before and after the arrival of Europeans.... okonkwo's participation in Ikemefuna's killing is not socially acceptable to his tribe....
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