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many instances where opposing cultures have been involved in wars due to miscommunication. It is evident through past events that conflict is avoidable through communication and negotiations to understand issues that may be present. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart illustrates the importance of communicating well with one’s associates or peers. Achebe highlights the value of the Ibo to prove that communication between cultures limits the risk of societal clashes. When cultures fail to…

In the classic bestseller Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, readers receive a plethora of cultural information about the Ibo. Achebe executes the story of Okonkwo and the other characters in Umuofia, where the story takes place, quite well, but it can sometimes become confusing to read about all the culture while still attempting to understand the plot. Due to this particular story’s ability to make it somewhat difficult to retain all the information given, it is helpful to analyse the…

Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing remains aptly polarizing to this day. The film depicts the escalating racial tensions on the hottest day of the year in the predominantly black New York neighborhood Bed Stuy. While on the surface, the film concerns itself primarily in terms of binaries, whether it be black and white or love and hatred. However, it goes beyond simple divisions and presents a complicated portrait of social hostility, class barriers, and racism. Through a variety of…

Achebe wrote this, he wanted to stay true to the traditions and what happened during the time period. Honoring the earth goddess shows that the people were cautious about certain things that could disrupt the peace. The earth goddess is similar to a mother figure and how the people look up to her and honor her for the good things that she did for the tribe. The tradition of the Igbo tribe of the goddess is that if one makes her angry or does something the upsets the balance of the peace, then…

spreading everywhere in the colonies. Some Africans were accepted Christian, but there were some more traditional couldn’t accept the new culture or religion. Achebe’s Thing fall apart and ASAMOAH-GYADU, J. KWABENA’s “’The Evil You Have Done Can Ruin the Whole Clan’: African Cosmology, Community, and Christianity in Achebe’s Things Fall Part” show how Okonkwo would do anything to prevent showing his weakness and converted to Christian. He would do anything to prevent loseing his honor in his…

half the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, violence.” In Chinua Achebe’s novel, “Things Fall Apart,” violence is an answer to most problems and unfortunately, a part of their daily lives. There is one question though that haunts the story while you read it, is the culture Chinua Achebe writes about so brilliantly considered savage,…

angst that he will be marked as cowardly; he would rather be seen as self-reliant than have the ones he thoroughly loves. “Okonkwo never showed any emotion openly, unless it be the emotion of anger. To show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength” (Pg 28). And in order to prove this, Okonkwo will accomplish or end anything. Deep down he knows that he feels the emotion and affection, and it is with that that he shows so much anger. His cold hearted…

In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Ibo culture clashes against Christian Missionaries in the middle of the story. Back during the 19th century, Christian Missionaries spread their culture through European Colonialism, which, even though brought modern technologies and ideas, it left native African cultures permanently damaged. This is portrayed with the views of an African native, Okonkwo, who was once famously known. After his seven-year exile, he came back to a changed Umuofia.…

Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart explored several different complex themes and conflicts, but overall, author Chinua Achebe examined change – and its effects on those it touches. Achebe’s work of fiction describes life among the Igbo people, both before and after the influx of Christian administrations and evangelists, paralleling the very real fall of the Nigerian tribal culture as British governance penetrated the African continent. By looking at these changes through four different lenses…

Things Fall Apart: The Futility of Man During the 20th century rush of imperialistic colonialism of Africa, millions of native Africans experienced the intolerance and persistence of the white man. The most powerful of the European influences was the Christian church: now the largest religion in the world. Natives were told to toss away their beliefs in the gods of their ancestors and the traditions of their people by the powerful few that came to conquer from Europe. Things Fall Apart showed…