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Carter Pon GS 2 8/23/2014 Things Fall Apart Summer Reading Assignment 1. How would you describe Okonkwo’s life and background as portrayed in the beginning of the novel? What role did his father play in this? A. After reading the beginning of the book, I am confident to say that Okonkwo's life has been spent attempting to shy away from his father's legacy, and create his own, from his own ideals. From Okonkwo's perspective, his father Unoka was an unsuccessful man, lazy and improvident.…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Ikemefuna hails from the village of Mbaino and he arrives in Iguedo on an agreement between the two villages to prevent a war from breaking out. The first year in Iguedo was tough for him. He missed his family, and he refuses to eat for the first few days. Eventually, he opens up to Okonkwo and starts to forget about his former family. Okonkwo begins to appreciate and accept Ikemefuna like his own son until he is chosen for a sacrificial ritual. Ikemefuna’s…

The white man’s ways were foreign to the Ibo culture. All they had known was that barns, wives, and wealth is what builds a successful life and depending on how much of each a man had it measured how prosperous they were as a person. In chapter one of Things Fall Apart it talks about Okonkwo’s father, Unoka and how he was failure during his life. In the book it states “A man with titles was placed significantly higher in the social structure of Umuofia than someone who was like Okonkwo’s father,…

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…

the book portray are of the 1990s. Adichie grew up in a home full of education and writing as her father, Chinua Achebe, was the deputy vice chancellor at the University of Nigeria, and the writer of Things Fall Apart. A few things to note are that Adichie drew some inspiration from her father’s book and the state in which Nigeria is in during this time. “Chimamanda grew up in Nsukka, in the house formerly occupied by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.”(Tunca)…

Cameroon is a country in Africa that has a variety of landscapes. It has resources that are valuable to other countries. Cameroon consist of national parks, cities, beaches, a reserve, and a river. There is over 250 racial groups in Cameroon. This means that there is many different religions practiced. Many of the religions practiced are Christianity, Muslim, Catholics, Protestants, and some worship their ancestors. The diversity of this country can be broken up into three groups the…

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe represents many themes you can apply to everyday life. Whether it’s cultural change or about the importance of your loved ones around you, Achebe’s themes are ones anyone can relate to. A vastly relatable theme in Things Fall Apart is being blinded by the need to succeed and ignoring your true fate. The character Okonkwo displays this theme the most by his control over the clan, his killing of Ikemefuma, and taking his own life. From the beginning of…

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart examines the culture and daily life of a small village in the Lower Niger. As the story progresses, missionaries from the West try and expand their faith and government to a small village, Umuofia. The daily life of Umuofia revolves around appeasing deities, providing yams for their village and families, and if you are a man, broadcasting your masculinity for the whole World to see. A near perfect embodiment of what Umuofia stands for is Okonkwo, a regional…

Nwoye’s Cultural Identity “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known” –Chuck Palahiuk. Chinua Achebe kept this quote in mind when she told the story of Nwoye through her book, Things Fall Apart. Nwoye was poorly mistreated by his father, Okonkwo, because Okonkwo felt that Nwoye acted like a woman. Weak, emotional, and scared. Okonkwo also killed Nwoye’s best friend and brother, Ikemefuna. However, the Western nation’s culture collided with Nwoye’s and…

Several researches have been conducted on the prospect and challenges of SMEs in Nigeria and abroad as Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have long been believed to be important in supporting economics development within a country (see Akhtar & CDASED, 1999; Mazzarol, Volery, Doss, and Thein, 1999; Al-Shaikh, 1998) while others…