Everything Falls Apart

is significant for all people, especially at young ages. Fathers play an important role while their sons are growing up, effecting their personality and other traits.. This can be good or bad. Chinua Achebe makes this an obvious point in Things Fall Apart. Father-son relationships over three generations have the power to influence the personality traits of each son in Achebe’s writing. Unoka, Okonkwo’s father, unintentionally influences Okonkwo’s violent and hardworking personality by…

Okonkwo had a strong response to the cultural collision in Things Fall Apart. Before encountering Western influence, Okonkwo was a strong but insecure man who cared a lot about gaining titles and respect. He immediately rejected the new culture and wanted to maintain their tribes’ original belief system, but unwillingness to change led him to end his own life. Okonkwo began to feel separate and distant from his once strong and resilient tribe because of their lack of action against the European…

Perception of Gender Roles A common question concerns what male and female roles in society are and if there is an in-between. In Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe explains the many challenges Okonkwo, a very honorable member from the Umuofia clan, faces with himself about cognitive dissonance. This Nigerian clan constantly revolves life around a deliberate gender role system. Okonkwo dedicates his life to always being masculine due to the fear of becoming a failure like his father Unoka, who did…

because they have to choose between two cultures: the culture they have always known and the culture that is being introduced to them. Okonkwo is an example because he is exposed to both the Ibo culture and European culture. In the novel, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo experiences a cultural collision, which is caused by the introduction of Western ideas into Ibo culture, in order to convey Achebe’s statement that when two cultures collide, they will often clash, and one culture…

The literary book “Things Fall Apart” is a well-written novel by Chinua Achebe about an ordinary Nigerian named Okonkwo and it explains how the impact of European colonization in his village significantly changed his life. Though this is the main idea, the novel also consists of many hidden messages which are shown through the interesting plot turns and literary devices. A theme that Achebe explores through the book is the role of men and women in the Igbo society and how certain customs are…

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, this novel tells the story of an African tribal hero and before the British colonial invasion of Igbo people's living conditions, this novel known as the masterpiece of African english novel. The author with keen insight portrayed a tradition of heroic image - the hero Okonkwo is a very perseverance and full of wisdom, his whole life is committed to overcome the shadow of his weak father around him, and achieved great success. In the fellow between the…

In the novel ,Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe, the protagonist Okonkwo had many challenges throughout his entire whole life. The many ups and downs Okonkwo had, labeled Okonkwo as an anti-hero. Okonkwo definitely wasn’t perfect but his intentions were good. An anti-hero is someone who does good and solves problems but lacks the characteristics of a stereotypical hero. Okonkwo displayed solutions of a hero but his plan towards those solutions showed him to be an anti-hero. Okonkwo’s…

The book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe tells of an Ibo village in Africa and its culture, along with how they are changed after the missionaries from England come to their villages. The missionaries impose their beliefs and religion onto the Ibo people through school and preaching the “right way to live”. The characters followed in this book are Okonkwo, an icon in the Ibo village; Nwoye, Okonkwo’s outsider son; and Obierika, one of Okonkwo’s good friends. This book helps to…

Things Fall Apart: Foil A foil is a secondary character who shines light on the main character.The secondary characters in this novel are Ezeudu, Obierika, and Nwoye. Mail character is Okonkwo who shows many issues he has with the help from the secondary characters who highlights Okonkwo's wonderful and terrible qualities he has Achebe choose to have Okonkwo as a foil character to show the many different things that's he does wrong in this community. In this novel Things Fall Apart Chinua…

parent or to be the complete opposite. In the novel, “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo observes all the situations his father, Unoka, goes through and decides he wants to be nothing like his father. Throughout the third and fourth chapter of book, Okonkwo detests all the struggles his father experiences and ultimately ends up strongly disliking Unoka based on his struggles. When Okonkwo is in his teenage years, he does everything he can to be successful and prosperous due to the…