The title of a story is one of the most defining things about it, it can take the actual story to a whole new level. Things Fall Apart is a novel by Chinua Achebe. It takes place in Africa around the 1900’s. It is a story about a village and a family who undergo many challenges as well as changes when the white men (British) come and try to convert them to Christianity whilst they struggle to hold onto their old culture and traditions. The title of this book is very important considering it is one of the reasons that the author wrote it. The purpose of the title “Things Fall Apart” is to show us the actual story of Africa and how other people’s stories (especially people who don’t come from that culture/ don’t know much about it) are incorrect;
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A single story can be told from multiple points of view. The real story is there in someway or another, you just need to listen very carefully to figure out the facts. The Igbo people had a good thing going for them before the British came and lead them astray from their culture and religion. Planting seeds of doubt and changing them from what they were. Many did not take to the new religion but most did whether it be for personal purposes, out of curiosity, or because others were. In one fowl swoop the British managed to mostly take out an entire culture. It simply fell apart. The ones who held onto it thankfully passed down the (good) traditions and then Achebe passed this novel down to us. So that we could learn from it, and hopefully not make the same mistakes again. When you first think about the title you might think that it just speaks of an item or possession like a toy car whose wheels break off. It isn’t speaking of that it speaks of the deeper meaning of those words, that everything can be broken even people if you try hard enough, or you aren’t trying at all. The world is such a fragile place and it’s been falling apart since the beginning of time; there’s absolutely nothing we can do to prevent it from happening all we can do is watch it as it crumbles beneath our very
A single story can be told from multiple points of view. The real story is there in someway or another, you just need to listen very carefully to figure out the facts. The Igbo people had a good thing going for them before the British came and lead them astray from their culture and religion. Planting seeds of doubt and changing them from what they were. Many did not take to the new religion but most did whether it be for personal purposes, out of curiosity, or because others were. In one fowl swoop the British managed to mostly take out an entire culture. It simply fell apart. The ones who held onto it thankfully passed down the (good) traditions and then Achebe passed this novel down to us. So that we could learn from it, and hopefully not make the same mistakes again. When you first think about the title you might think that it just speaks of an item or possession like a toy car whose wheels break off. It isn’t speaking of that it speaks of the deeper meaning of those words, that everything can be broken even people if you try hard enough, or you aren’t trying at all. The world is such a fragile place and it’s been falling apart since the beginning of time; there’s absolutely nothing we can do to prevent it from happening all we can do is watch it as it crumbles beneath our very