Fall of Saigon

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, there are many tragic events that led up to the death of the main character, Okonkwo. Okonkwo, who finds himself unable to adapt to the changes taking place in society, is a personal tragedy. From this, we can learn that his death was indeed in vain. His refusal to change, which contrasted with the society’s willingness to change, can be a key example that close mindedness has it's negative outcomes with very little to few positive outcomes. In many ways…

Analysis of the story Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe spoke about three settings of the mood which were: Mood and Atmosphere, Locale, and Time of day. Edgar Allan Poe wrote many good stories,but the most intense ones were his horror stories. He wrote a well written literary device of settings to create a dark, threatening tone in his story. In the first part of the story Edgar uses Mood and Atmosphere.You could tell that the narrator is extremely nervous due to the fact of how he was writing…

Some say he’s insane, others call him a genius. No matter what end of the spectrum you fall on, he is a major figure in world literature. Edgar Allan Poe shaped what the world knows as a short story (poets.org), his works were the basis for detective and horror stories and his morally questionable stories chilled generations to the bone. Popular themes used in his writing consist of love vs. hate, self vs. your alter ego (pride), beauty, and death. His childhood was no walk in the park and…

I Felt Madness, In My Brain… “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is about the narrator who killed the old man because of the obsession over the old man’s vulture eye. He foresighted the plan very efficiently on how he killed the old man but ended up showing the old man’s remains to the officers. He mainly did this to stop hearing the old man’s heart. “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” by Emily Dickinson is about a narrator hearing sounds in the funeral. She was hearing footsteps, people lift a…

Throughout history, men have been generalized as brutes, because of certain few iconic men. Since the beginning of time, men have been entitled to positions of power and with that power comes stereotypes that men are arrogant, aggressive and egotistical. However, history has shown that these select few have dictated the overall view of masculinity. For example, historical figures like Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, and Malcolm x have displayed masculinity through aggression, violence, and…

The Gluttony in a Good Soul Okonkwo has seen what happens to men who cannot fend for themselves, his actions reflect that. However, having a troubled past is not an excuse for the actions of oneself. So when asking if Okonkwo is a good man or terribly flawed, we first must ask what makes a man terribly flawed? What makes a man good? Is it the way he treats his family? His morals and values? Everything in between? Okonkwo can be seen as both a good man and terribly flawed depending on the angle…

Seneca Falls, New York was a tiny village in eighteen forty-eight. Barely large enough to accommodate the steady stream of wagons filing into it. Men and women from all over the country struggled to find seating in the meeting hall. Drawn by notices and publications announcing the advent months prior, nearly three hundred people arrived to provide witness and opinion to the topic of women’s rights. Later called the Declaration of Sentiments, signers of this resolution agreed that women should…

In “The Tell-Tale Heart” it is clear that the narrator’s conscience has overtaken him and it is up to the reader to discern whether the narrator is actually insane or whether he suffers from an over acuteness of his senses. However, when Poe makes the suggestion that the narrator is insane based on the narrator’s own claim of insanity, then the actions of the narrator serve to expose the narrative irony in the story. In this regard, Poe makes the audience believe that the narrator’s insanity…

Many people tend to treat their children equally to keep the tension low. Spreading equality within children is very important, especially your own. On the other hand, Okonkwo didn't seem to really spread equality. He treated his son Nwoye and his daughter Ezinma fairly different. Okonkwo seemed to fill Nwoye with fear of his own father, which made the relationship distant between them. The reasons for that was mainly because “Nwoye was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient…

Although there are many incidents of sacrifice in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the boldest ones are the aspects of sacrifice in Igbo culture, and Okonkwo’s reasons for being extremely masculine. Sacrifice is largely shown in the book, as it the center point for most events. As the Igbo culture has numerous specific traditions, many include rituals of sacrifice. The sacrifices can span from fruit to animals to people. The Igbo people saw these as spiritual symbols- they believed that the…