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Authors Sembene Ousmane and Chinua Achebe both documented the revolution in Africa; additionally, similar to most other historical everts, they have conflicting views on the purpose of traditions. Furthermore, in both God’s Bits of Wood and Things Fall Apart, traditions are a determining factor in the culture of the communities…

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Montage Rhodes James, who is born in 1862, is a famous horror novelist and story writer. He pursued his reading habit when he was young. At college, he preferred to stay in the library and rapidly became an assistant in the classical archaeology. He is known as an intelligent and scientific knowledge of human nerves and feelings. His most popular works include “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary”, “The Five Jars”, “A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost Stories” and “The Collected Ghost Stories of…

Edgar Allan Poe, the author of “The Tell-Tale Heart” was born on 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is known for his detective and dark stories. Most of Poe’s short stories uses a first person narration. The story, “the Tell-Tale Heart” was published on 1850. Poe uses an unreliable first person narrator, with an unknown name and unclear identity, who constantly tries to convince readers of his sanity. The narrator has an unknown relation to the old man, who he murdered in the story. By depicting…

Modern artists today generally use images of physical and mental illness in literature. In The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, both short stories show the usage of illness, madness, and fear. In both stories Poe tries to convince the readers that the characters are physically and mentally ill. Edgar Allen Poe creates these vivid characters which have successfully assisted the building of plot and ideas. Through the use of images of physical and mental…

Comparative Essay The Tell-Tale Heart vs. The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be one of the great masters of horror. This certainly holds true for his stories The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. Both of these stories are written in the in the first-person limited, from the perspective of two murderers. These stories contain many similarities and differences in terms of tone and irony, imagery and symbolism, theme, and the diction of the protagonist. In both of…

In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there is a man named Okonkwo lives in a Nigerian village called Umuofia. Okonkwo is highly respected in the village and has a place in the village as an Egwugwu . He is very successful and has multiple wives and children. Although he is a well rounded man he still is influenced by everything in his life. He is both influenced by the internal and external conflicts he faces in his complete life and is mostly impacted externally by his friends and…

I have chosen to write about Okonkwo and why gender matters to him. Okonkwo is portrayed as a very masculine man who has much faith in the quality of "manliness". Okonkwo has three wives and each with their own hut. Okonkwo speaks words on how anything strong was to men and anything weak to women , Okonkwo was known to despise anything fragile and weak. But then why did he have three wives? Not only did he did he think all women were weak but anything weak was women. These gender roles…

In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo has good qualities to him such as being a hard worker, and he is respected throughout the villages, but he often blocks his emotions and becomes a murderer. These actions make him seem like a bad person which makes him actually become one and leads him to being banished from the village. He is strong and honorable but his offsets often distract people from the real Okonkwo. Okonkwo is an unsympathetic character with his wives Ojiugo and…

What does it really mean to be a ‘man’. To show how ‘manly’ you are. In the novel, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe had written a story that is basically told in its title. From a village called Umuofia, Okonkwo’s life begins to fall apart due to various actions he has committed to soon be exiled from his village. During his exile missionaries have come into Umuofia and converted people into Christianity. Okonkwo’s madness lead him to kill a messenger of the missionaries and shorty after Okonkwo…