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    The novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, follows Okonkwo’s life and his clan who live in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo’s father, Unoka is a laid back man who was largely in debt and carried no titles. Okonkwo vowed he would not become his father and as a young boy and strove for greatness. Getting his start by winning a wrestling match, he grew to be a self-made man and accumulated many titles, land and strong relationships with important people in the village while in Umuofia. Okonkwo…

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    If you are a woman, you would not want to live in Igbo society. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, he describes a society where men have more power than women. The main character, Okonkwo, has many conflicts regarding his masculinity. He tries to be an excessively masculine figure in a society that has more of a balance between masculinity and femininity. Achebe promotes many stereotypes about masculine and feminine traits in his novel. Okonkwo is a hyper-masculine character who…

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    commonly utilize folktales to connect the reader to the given cultures, allowing the reader insight into a foreign setting. Another way they are used is to educate the reader of a lesson.Even other times, they can used to foreshadow later events. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is a splendid example of the use of folktales, ascribing the stories a greater meaning than what initially meets the eye. Chinua Achebe sets the novel in the foreign African village of Umuofia, where the Africans…

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    helped enact him as part of the literary canon. Things fall apart expressed his rejection for the pessimistic point of view he had already accepted before the independence of Nigeria. In his book, he demonstrated comeliness and the unequaled characteristics of African culture. The colonization of Africa really made the locals adopt the western culture, neglecting their own. He urged Africans to embrace and value their culture as the whites were. “Things fall apart has been translated into more…

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    characterize themselves as very deep people with long histories. Yet, when taking a deeper look into the actuality and the extreme biases, a different, much more tragic and true story appears. Here enters Chinua Achebe, a writer from Nigeria. In his novel, Things Fall Apart, a different world view is shown, and the loss of a culture and lives becomes apparent. In an argument against the constant bias…

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    reading about it. Once information is known; it always exists and sometimes changes lives. Although the idea of learning something new seems like a modern day idea, it is prevalent in nineteenth century literature as well. Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, uses the religious cultural collision between the European missionaries and African tribes and its effect on Nwoye to bring out a central theme of religion. When the missionaries arrive in Mbanta, Nwoye is discretely curious to…

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    that the concept of exile is “the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place.” While his general claim is that exile “can never be surmounted,” Said adds that it can potentially be an “enriching” ordeal. In the African tragedy, Things Fall Apart, author Chinua Achebe presents the impact of such a detrimental experience through his protagonist, Okonkwo. Throughout the novel, Okonkwo’s struggle to gain respect and improve his social status eventually consumes him when he is…

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    The Negative Consequences of Okonkwo’s actions in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, he writes about the Igbo and their culture. For instance, the Europeans and their forces of colonialism and Christianity invaded the Igbo. The novel also speaks about the life of a man named Okonkwo. With the characteristics of a hardworking member of the Igbo community, he is a leader whose tragic flaw is his greatest fear of weakness and failure. His fear drives him…

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    Masculinity definition in Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart takes place with the Igbo tribe during the 19th century in Nigeria, Africa. A major theme in the story is the definition of masculinity. What is masculinity? “The possession of the qualities traditionally associated with men.” This theme is conveyed many ways throughout the story. It is shown by the roles of men and women, the way Okonkwo expects his sons to act, how Okonkwo acts himself, and the way the men of…

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    In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Ibo people from Umuofia based their lives on their beliefs and culture. The Ibo culture mainly evolved around the men, making them superior to the women in every possible aspect. Women are made to seem unimportant in the Ibo culture. The Ibo culture associates women to weakness, handled as objects, and given no power. Throughout, the book Chinua wrote, he set many examples in which women were treated as inferior to men. The main character of…

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