Arrow of God

Malcolm Gladwell told the story of David the poor little shepherd boy who battle with Goliath the giant that everyone fear but it took the courage of a poor shepherd to bring him down. Just like David we all have to over come fear. Fear come in many forms, fear is a part of our lives,fear is a part of who we are.my fear came to me in many forms, fear to fail never wanting to be less than anyone, my fear of not being able to care for my family, these are fears that we all share,the fear that I…

Cultural collisions between different groups of people that are forced to live together are bound to happen, especially if those two groups have completely different ways of life. Chinua Achebe depicts what cultural collision can do to two different groups of people in his novel Things Fall Apart between the main character Okonkwo and the colonizers that come to his village, Umuofia. Okonkwo, an aggressively over-masculine, hot-tempered, traditional man, comes to face his old traditions and ways…

Being a father can mean very different things to different people, in this book Okonkwo sees being a father in an incomparable way to the way his father Unoka saw it. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo struggles to play both the role of a leader, and a father. Okonkwo sees no desire in creating meaningful relationships with those in his life. He chooses society's opinion of him versus his family's. As the story progresses it becomes more clear that Okonkwo deals with his emotions…

There are a lot of plays that have irony. A Greek play called Oedipus have all types of irony. The author of the play Oedipus uses dramatic, situational, and verbal irony in his play. This play is about a man named Oedipus who becomes a king by killing his father which he was not aware of, later he marries his mother. This is a famous play because people all over the world have read this amazing play. First, One of the irony in the play Oedipus is dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when we…

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is about one man’s struggle with his ambition within his Igbo culture. The protagonist, Okonkwo, strives in becoming an accomplished man and respected leader in his tribe. Aside from the central plot, Things Fall Apart includes a collection of scenarios and concepts that people experience in today’s day and age, such as reaching one’s true potential, cultural traditions, and intertwining relations. Specifically, the narrative provides several illustrations of…

Okonkwo is a man whom throughout his entire life has strived for strength and to farther himself and those around him from things he perceives to be weak. This stems from a lifelong ambition to build his life from the ground up and become an important member of the clan, as his father Unoka was an unsuccessful farmer and seen a lowly man. Okonkwo’s greatest fear however is weakness, as described on p. 11. Okonkwo is sentenced to 7 years in exile to his motherland of Mbanta for accidentally…

By the end of the story, Equality 7-2521 has changed his mind and become very critical of the leaders of his society, denouncing them in moral terms. Do you think he is correct to do so? Why or why not? In the story Anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 is growing away from the life he was brought up living like, now he’s starting to figure out what life really is. He is growing farther away from the morals he was taught as a young boy. Equality will meet a girl in the story and they will…

In Things Fall Apart, the reader is introduced to a main by the name of Okonkwo. Okonkwo is hardworking and aggressive, traits that bring him fame and wealth at the beginning of the novel. This same fear also causes Okonkwo to be impatient and brash, however, leading to his eventual downfall when he can't adjust to the changes occurring in the clan. Though Okonkwo is a respected leader in the Umuofia tribe, he lives in fear of becoming his father, a man known for his laziness and cowardice.…

The purpose of this article is to analyze the short story “Civil Peace” by the Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, in the light of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The story happens in Nigeria, which has a long history of being colonized by English troops till 1960, when the Nigerians eventually gained their independence. Achebe uses English language as a postcolonial tool to defend his people. The story “Civil Peace” opens right after the Civil War and ends after so much blood shedding and brutality.…

The novel « Things Fall Apart » by Chinua Achebe is written in English. However, there are some Ibo expressions set in this novel to introduce the reader’s mind into a more authentic and unique African atmosphere. The author, Chinua Achebe, is the first to write a novel about colonialism in the perspective of a colonized tribe from within. Furthermore, he is the only African who has ever described the African culture before and after the settlement of the Christians. This essay will examine how…