Chinua Achebe

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe represents many themes you can apply to everyday life. Whether it’s cultural change or about the importance of your loved ones around you, Achebe’s themes are ones anyone can relate to. A vastly relatable theme in Things Fall Apart is being blinded by the need to succeed and ignoring your true fate. The character Okonkwo displays this theme the most by his control over the clan, his killing of Ikemefuma, and taking his own life. From the beginning of…

In the novels Things fall apart written by Chinua Achebe and Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi both novels have to similar themes, which is political repression and how the main character goes about fighting it. In Things fall apart British invaders are repressing the Nigerian villagers and in Persepolis the people of Iran are being forced by Islamic Fundamentalist to abide by Islamic law. Each novel does have a protagonist that rebel against their oppressors, in Things fall apart we meet…

Based on the novel so far “Things Fall Apart”, by Chinua Achebe, the story mostly takes place in an African village In Nigeria known as the Ibo village, were the spiritual world is strongly believed to exists in its culture. The story revolves around a man named Okonkwo, a clan leader, who is widely known for his successful and powerful nature. He tries to avoid being like his father which was being unsuccessful and weak, and because of this he tries to convince himself and the society that…

A father-son relationship is an important part of a boy's development . In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is a powerful clan leader in Umuofia and his father poor choices in his life has driven Okonkwo to achieve success. Okonkwo is a hardworking and violent man and more successful than his father, Unoka. Unoka was a failure and it was how it shaped Okonkwo as a person and Okonkwo expects his children to follow his footsteps and become successful as him. The conflict is based on…

become the authority himself and demand the submission from those closest to him: his wives and children. In Okonkwo’s world, there was no ability to say “no.” He disparaged those who had the ability to be disobedient, calling them “women” and “weak.” (Achebe ?) In Igbo culture, the center of life was the clan. There is no independence and no autonomy in a communal society. The members of the clan had the ability to change their circumstances, but there was no real capacity to live outside the…

natural and subconscious part of human life, as they themselves are animals after all. Humans can be savage towards other humans seen in domestic abuse, or towards animals also seen in animal abuse. Savagery is best depicted in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The main protagonist Okonkwo, is introduced as a man full of glory, who regards masculinity above all, despising his father who was lazy. His life is turned upside down when is exiled from his village and with the arrival of the…

Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe is an African novel. It occurs in the 1890s and gives a glimpse of life during that time period pertaining to the noticeable differences between the European’s and the traditional customs of the Umuofian people. This novel encompasses their history, family structure, the introduction of outsiders influences, gender roles, rapid changes, customs and timeless struggles. The invasion of the colonial European government is threating to contest and disrupt nearly…

In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the entire Igbo culture becomes in danger when missionaries show up and try to convert everyone, but many resist because denying their culture would mean that everything that they’ve worked for their entire lives was pointless. Okonkwo was a great man and warrior who held two titles in his village. He got his recognition from being brave, violent, and stoic in his ways believing that these were the marks of being a true man. Okonkwo’s father was a…

Things Fall Apart If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe tells the story of a man named Okonkwo. He had to build his life from the ground up, due to the lack of support from his lazy, dishonorable father. In the Ibo culture a man was hardworking and independent. Okonkwo was a perfect representation of a true man. In fear of being like his father he worked very hard to get where he was at the top of the clan. Even though Okonkwo had a hard…

loosed upon the world” (W.B Yeats, “The Second Coming”). This quote is the epigraph in Chinua Achebe 's book “Things Fall Apart”. The second half of his book you start to see the Ibo culture falling apart which could be the result of a few different things. W.B Yeats once said that things do not collapse on their own but that their must be outside pressures as well as internal conflict. I think that this is why Achebe chose this quote. He chose it to show us how in his book the Ibo already had…