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...?Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe in his Things Fall Apart focuses on the typical African notions of power and success in the line of which he characterises Okonkwo. Okonkwo represents the African tribal spirit at the eve of the colonial control. In an unbiased and non-judgemental narration Achebe has tried to explore and uphold the disappearing aboriginal culture of the Dark Continent. His attempt had been to draw home the point that each to his own. He was against the colonialist strategy to mark the African Igbo tribal culture as primitive and retrogressive and going head on to...
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...and Number Things Fall Apart There are many novels in this world that seek to capture history, emotion, or simply a piece of the human experience. Within the novel entitled Things Fall Apart, author Chinua Achebe is able to succeed at presenting all three of these aspects which is perhaps one of the reasons why this book has achieved such acclaim and global success. In reviewing Things Fall Apart, it is important to focus on Achebe’s background, purpose, points, views, and overall goals with this particular piece. The...
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... Things Fall Apart: the Unsatisfied Soul of Okonwo Introduction In the novel, “Things Falls Apart”, Chinua Achebe carefully depicts and judges the encounter of two civilizations and the ways how the people respond to it. Obviously defying the stereotypical views of the two civilizations he attempts to delve deep into the drives that opened the ways for the disintegration of the African indigenous societies and cultures. Though Achebe moans this disintegration, he has not glossed over the deficits, deficiencies and superstitions that the tribal culture holds at its heart. By assuming this neutral stance he puts forward the proposition that the African tribes are not as savage and brute as what any European stereotypical view about... ....
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...Things Fall Apart Things fall apart is one of the novels by of the most renowned African Chinua Achebe. The novel tells the story of the coming of the white settlers to Africa, and the different reactions that the Africans had to the coming of the whites. The cultural differences between the Africans and the Whites in the novel present a lot of problems between the two cultures. The novel tells the story of the arrival of the whites through the story of Okonkwo, one of the elders of the Umofia clan who because of his inability to accept the changing times and the coming of the white man...
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...by a flock of white missionary men who used their religion to colonize it (Achebe, 99-130). Though in the village’s tradition and anywhere else, suicide is a form of weakness, it was not for the case of Okonkwo. He would rather die than embrace a religion introduced by people who destroyed the legacy of their ancestors. Turning away from the tradition is killing the very village where he was born, where his father was born, where his children were born. Okonkwo died with the tradition in his heart yet that same tradition hinders his body to be laid properly into rest. It was a showcase of great courage that one took his own life as a sign of his refusal to accept the religion that killed the village’s tradition. Works...
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...their continents or countries so that the writers can be more careful when writing about Africa. We ought to define ourselves as in the right way to avoid being defined by people who hardly know us. We also ought to defend ourselves by being firm contrary general views about various cultures. We need to take down the picture put up for us by other people, and show an image, painted by us. References Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, 2010. Internet Resource. Kahora, Billy and Binyaranga Wainaina. Kwani? Nairobi: Kwani Trust, 2007. Print. Keim, Curtis A. Mistaking Africa:...
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...and it is organized in a coherent manner. Since everything evolves chronologically, events are straightforward and cohesive. The story unfolds as it should and the third person narration works well because the narrator remains in the background and allows the events of the story without interjecting any obtrusive points of view. The conclusion of the novel is also easy to understand in that it gives importance to every life regardless of how simple and useless someone else might think it is. The Commissioner decides that Okonkwo's life might be worth a chapter but is it actually worth much more and Achebe demonstrates with an entire novel. Okonkwo did not die without a reason and his cause, as fruitless as it was,...
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...that his presence is slowly but surely bringing to an end. The black man is nothing to the District Commissioner, and his continent is nothing but a blank slate on which he may write. Okonkwo is not even considered human by this (supposed) Christian; the Commissioner dehumanizes him just as the people of Africa are dehumanized by the title of the book he is to write: “The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.” (p.152).
Achebe puts forwards many characterizations of the white colonialist, complicating our view of the Western European role as an imperial force. Although he is reconstructing what the tribe people of Nigeria might of thought of the white men they...
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...Significance of Okonkwo’s Death in “Things Fall Apart” Introduction In Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Falls Apart”, Okonkwo’s death renders a two-fold meaning. On the individual level, his death signifies an African’s rigidity and conservatism that fail him to forsake the irrationalities and superstitious traits of his culture and society. His death symbolizes his ultimate failure in his struggle against the invading white. But on the collective level, Okonkwo’s suicide refers to the death of a culture that cannot survive on its own because its deficits in comparison to the rationalities of encroaching...
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Love for truth, painful experiences, sticking to the grassroots realities, imagination based on the practical vision make a brilliant writer. Some write for making a career and some for the sake of upholding the truth and to lend solid support for the common man and societal values. Chinua Achebe is a writer with all the positive qualities clubbed in appropriate proportions. The writings of such writers become a joke to some intellectuals and to the wise ones, they are like scriptural revelations. “Things...
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