Analysis Of Kwame Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Kwame Achebe lives in Nigeria and growing up he desired to escape his struggling lifestyle by playing in a basketball tournament and showing off his magnificent skills to the American recruits. Kwame made his grandmother two promises that he vowed to keep forever. The first promise was to stay in straight and go to school. The second promise was to never end up like his old man. From watching his grandma everyday Kwame understands that hard work and dedication will bring success. However, he starts to head down the wrong path with this gangster named Olu, He begins with success through a different lens; one that emphasizes evil. Kwame falls under this tension because he is in desperate need of new shoes for basketball, and lost hope in …show more content…
Surprisingly, when Kwame goes with Olu to the old mama blues place and he knows that it’s a bad idea but does it anyway because he thinks Olu is the only one who can help him. At the time Kwame says: “ the preacher is never around when you need him”. Kwame shows he is going to do whatever it takes to reach his goal. When Kwame takes the shoes from Olu and sees the blood on them he thinks back of them killing his father and Olu notices his face so he says to Kwame “ is there a problem ? ” and Kwame responds back with “ No there is no problem ”. Kwame knew that he was terrible what he was doing but he also knew that this could be the only way I can make it out of Nigeria and take care of his family. He would deal with evil in order to attain what he believes is the only thing worthy of his life. Kwame tells his grandmother that he going to what he needs to do to get to where he is going. Earlier when his grandmother handed him the money she made and gave it to Kwame and said it was from his father Kwame tells his grandmother she can’t read because he read that it from her. Kwame then gets ready to walk out the door and expressed to his grandmother “ you can wait around for