Igbo language

The backbone of any piece of writing is the type of literary conflict that revolves within it. To truly understand the inner workings of any piece, one must be familiar with the four main types of conflict: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, and Man vs. Self. Many literary works include more than one of these forms of conflict, including Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. However, it can be said that Man vs. Man is the most prevalent of these forms within this work. The Man vs. Man…

Man has been its own enemy since existence. How we create, how we live, how we struggle, how we succeed. If there wasn't any self morals how would we have survived. If there wasnt for good people America would have never prospered into the great nation it is today. In “Compassion and the Individual,” Tenzin Gyatso, explains how each human is built on the love from others. Even the most secluded and independent person needs love and compassion. Tenzin states that, “The need for love lies at the…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is portrayed as a man of strength. In the final pages of the book this fear to be anything else but a “strong man,” is what ultimately leads to his suicide in the most ironic way. The fear of being seen as weak not only to himself but the in the eyes of everyone around him, not only lead to his death but drives the entire story. Okonkwo's need to be seen as no less than strength comes from his father. Throughout the writing we see the hatred Okonkwo…

Abina and The Important Men is a collaboration of both Trevor R. Getz and Liz Clarke. Getz, a historian of Africa and also a professor at San Francisco State University in World History. This book is graphic history that tells the story of a real court case in the town of Cape Coast in the British Gold Coast colony of West Africa during the 1870’s. This case involved the plaintiff, Abina Mansah and the defendant, a wealthy important man named Quamina Eddoo. Abina (the plaintiff), believes that…

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe tells the story of the struggle between a split African tribe, the nobleman and the outcast. As the title implies the struggle only goes downhill. In one chapter the church members struggle to accept the outcast, the osu. When one applies Kwame Anthony Appiah’s idea of conversations between cultures in the Cosmopolitanism to the Umuofia people joining the culture of the Church in Things Fall apart, the converts would be more accepting. However, the congregation…

Imagine you are boy live in Africa and come from a poor family. Imagine that your father cannot provide for your family and you owe a lot of money to friends and relatives, he has to pay back; moreover, he is not respected at all he has no titles. How would you respond, make a name for yourself, and prove that you are nothing like your father? Okonkwo perfectly fits this description. Written by Chinua Achebe in 1958, Things Fall Apart takes place in Nigeria and centers the story about Okonkwo…

Religion as a Beneficial Asset to Humans Religion has existed on earth for thousands of years. Everywhere around the world, there are a myriad of places for worship: churches, monasteries, temples, mosques, synagogues, shrines, etc. Religion has become universal and the basis of many human lives. In Things Fall Apart, a novel by Chinua Achebe, religion is an important element of the lives of all characters. This novel takes place in 1890s Nigeria within the clan Umuofia and focuses on the…

Power has the ability to overcome and make anyone in its way obsessed with having it. Power can turn even the best, most moral people into people full of greed and hate. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Ibo tribe is becoming oppressed and disrespected by the arrival of Christian Missionaries. Achebe shows us through the imprisonment of the tribe leaders and the forcing of the Missionary 's government onto the tribe that a thirst for power can destroy and break things apart.…

the ignorance of different religions and a thirst for power. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the reader follows Okonkwo and the Igbo tribes live’s through the beginning of when Christian missionaries began trying to convert african tribes. Achebe shows us that a thirst for power and ignorance towards other religions causes great turmoil as shown when the Igbo tribe leaders were tricked and imprisoned by the Christian leaders. Many situations and events in the book lead up to when the clan…

A Woman’s Place A god’s wrath, and a mother’s embrace. Two constructs that exist on opposite sides of our minds, and yet each holds equal power in regard to our existence in it’s own right. The wrath of a god is overwhelming, omnipotent, and everlasting. A mother’s warm embrace, holding you close and granting the feeling of protection, and the undying love of a woman who would do anything for her darling child. To the Ibo people, these two concepts, however different they may be are both…