No Longer at Ease

“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart” ( Achebe, pg 176 ). From the start of trade and technological inventions, cultures have collided and clash with one another. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, a warrior who is highly respected in his society, struggles to keep up with the constant changes in his tribe and instead of going along with it, he responds by resisting it. Not wanting to be anything like his father, Okonkwo grows…

In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is a tragic hero. Okonkwo is the protagonist of Things fall apart and in the novel Okonkwo demonstrates hamartia, peripeteia, as well as anagnorisis. Okonkwo is a hardworking bellwether of the Igbo community of Umuofia. Okonkwo’s tragic imperfection is his trepidation of failure. His father was the derivative of this trepidation. Okonkwo's father was an indolent character who had accumulated so much debt he owed every single individual in the clan some…

Today I interviewed a man by the name of Johnny Christian. He just recently earned the title of Bryan County Sheriff so I knew he had to be full of good ideas. I started by asking him all the questions in the list in order and then a couple of my own. I learned that he has been friends with my dad since they were kids and also grew up in the same town I live in now. He went to the same high school as me and had no intentions of becoming a police officer as a college student. It surprised me when…

In the book, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe thoroughly makes it clear important strength is in the Ibo Tribe. Throughout the story we learn how Okonkwo has persevered from his father's misfortune and poverty, to becoming one of the tribes greatest war heroes. The strength he showed when “Throwing the cat,” and bringing the heads of his enemies back, made him powerful in different aspects. One being having several wives, which in his tribe alone made him both powerful and successful. In the…

There are a lot of plays that have irony. A Greek play called Oedipus have all types of irony. The author of the play Oedipus uses dramatic, situational, and verbal irony in his play. This play is about a man named Oedipus who becomes a king by killing his father which he was not aware of, later he marries his mother. This is a famous play because people all over the world have read this amazing play. First, One of the irony in the play Oedipus is dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when we…

In the play Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry the effects of colonialism is a theme that is irrevocably present throughout the plot. The play is set in a fictional country in Africa and it depicts in detail the results of European presence. Although the setting and characters were fictional the story line followed and contained various realistic situations and issues that existed and continues to exist in colonized countries. Some major issues that are presented in the play that transcends…

In the story, Things Fall apart by Chinua Achebe, the protagonist, Okonkwo is a man that is loaded with pride. He is centrally regarded as a masculine, strict, and violent man. This allowed Achebe to exhibit Okonkwo’s determination and behavior throughout the novel. The reason for being is because having an exaggerated amount of self-esteem usually lead to insignificant decisions by selfish individuals that cause them to lose consciousness of the consequences their Chi (Gods) bring. Therefore,…

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…

Oliver Mahoro Lauren Liebe English 203 Tuesday, November 28, 2017 A People Unknown Things Fall Apart takes place in what is now known as Nigeria, this happens during the late 19th century, but the book itself was written in 1958 as the colonial system in Africa was falling apart. What makes Things Fall Apart so significant, is that before it, most of the records, novels, and books about Africa and its people written in English were all written by Europeans. So when Chinua Achebe came to the…

Runner’s Aesthetic choices within the production reflects the specific cultural aspect of the characters of the story. The English speaking white South-African Capetonian. The first Aesthetic choice in the composition of the shots in the industrial scene sets the geographic location of the story in Cape Town by show casing Table Mountain in the Background. This icon of the cap hints the audience at the character’s location and sets the story in being a part of the South-African Culture. Runner…