Fall

.In Things Fall Apart, Nigeria’s people had believed for many years of the great power the goddess of earth, Ani had. Fearing that power, they created a strict system to maintain their deity pleased. But as, a band of white missionaries came to Nigeria implying that their ways are wrong, and demonstrating their Savior's loving ways. Nigeria develops doubt towards the authority and power of their deity, causing their culture to be irreversibly changed. Chinua Achebe’s novel describes how…

In the novel "Things Fall Apart", Achebe expresses how the new colonizing community effectively suppressed the indigenous tribes in Africa through merciless and uncompromising methods. The oppression of the Ibo tribes did not consist of an immediate takeover, but was instead implemented through a subtle reworking of Ibo values. The colonizers began by introducing a counterculture and refusing to acknowledge Ibo beliefs. While initially creating a façade of peaceful missionary work, the…

Ezeulo had a half brother by name Okeke Onenyi who had a grudge against Ezeulu becoming the Chief Priest of Umuaro. Ezeulu did not invite him for the ritual of the Covering-Up sacrifice for Obeka’s wife and allowed a worthless medicine man to perform the ritual. This itself proves that Ezeulu did certain acts of rituals because of social obligation and concern for his clan. It is because in the Ibo community parenthood is not a private concern and that is why he does not allow his half…

Edgar Allan Poe explains that on a dark, gloomy day the narrator is visiting his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, because Roderick has been ill, but when the narrator arrived he saw that the house is rather odd and unusual. Madeline, Roderick’s sister, is also ill and suddenly dies from a strange disease, making the narrator believe that the house has something to do with both of their illnesses. With the help of the narrator, Roderick buries his sister beneath the house and the narrator…

Gothic elements in "The fall of the house of Usher" Edgar Allan Poe has two qualities of a genius, the faculty of vigorous analysis and an amazing richness of imagination; the first is as needful to the artist in word, as knowledge of anatomy to the artist that carves in stone. It is the resort which enables him to conceive truly and to maintain a proper relation off parts, while the second quality fills up and colours. Both of these traits, have been displayed by Poe with an unique sharpness…

Treatment of the Tribe Okonkwo’s gun exploded and killed a boy during a funeral, he was banished to his motherland for seven years as punishment, after the accidental death of a 16-year-old boy. It was at this time that the missionaries’ movement set in amongst the villagers of Umuofia. Since Okonkwo was not in his village of Umuofia, he was not able to do anything to stop or persuade the villager from participating. Okonkwo’s own son Nwoye became a missionary, after hearing a song that…

The Seneca Falls Convention was a major starting point in the women’s rights movement. There the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was read by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which grasp the attentions of many men that participated. This document sparked the pathway for equal women’s rights. It addressed the many complaints that impacted women during this period. Through their well crafted document, they hoped that it would change the mindset of an unequal country. The Declaration of Sentiments…

An ideal collective society is one that has a primary entity while also maintaining room for an individual to act on his or her own accord. There are many communities which fail to achieve such a society. In the book, Things Fall Apart, author Chinua Achebe creates the main protagonist, Okonkwo, and the story tracks his consistent struggle with maintaining individualism in the Umuofia tribe. The rigid structure of the Umuofia community hinders the individual from being able to fully thrive…

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, raises the question whether Christianity and British colonization had a unifying or disruptive impact on the Igbo community. Initial reading suggests to the reader that the influence of Christianity produced only a negative impact on the Igbo since the British colonists took over the Igbo community’s way of life, government, and disposed of their religious-cultural traditions in order to build Christian traditions. However, under the surface the missionaries of…

of the character’s life such as the many things Nwoye has to go through in a day along with Okonkwo’s pride with the consequences they have to face. He was a role model to Nwoye and a son to Okonkwo. The character, Ikemefuna, from the book, Things Fall Apart serves a role as someone who holds the father son relationship between Okonkwo and Nwoye and gives a new change to the family. Topic sentence- Firstly, Someone that is to be loved by Okonkwo would be a very hard thing to accomplish,…