Thing

trying new things. I’m bold. I love the rush of adrenaline you get when taking risks. I love the unknown. I’ve had this mindset for as long as I can remember; I’ve always believed that living a life without being audacious isn’t a life worth having. You need to be impulsive. Try new things without worrying about the outcome, because if you do, you won’t enjoy the little things in life nearly as much. But things can go wrong, and they do. All the time. Sometimes creating and trying new things…

although this is a really admirable thing to do, it is usually something that is only done during this occasions. Furthermore, most times, it is assumed that their only needs are the material ones, when really, a lot of people need moral and spiritual need. My school used to take us to poor daycares on christmas eve, and we would be assigned each one one kid, to whom we would bring a bag of candy, a little lunch bag, and a gift. Although it was a really nice thing to do, and something really…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Ibo culture is known for their power and extreme faith of their religion. Manliness is an honorable trait, throughout the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo, the protagonist, lives in a world where showing emotion is considered weak. His anger leads him to physically abuse his three wives. In Umuofia the strongest village is the Igbo culture and it's where this story takes place. In Things Fall Apart, many social groups are marginalized and the main social…

Being a father can mean very different things to different people, in this book Okonkwo sees being a father in an incomparable way to the way his father Unoka saw it. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo struggles to play both the role of a leader, and a father. Okonkwo sees no desire in creating meaningful relationships with those in his life. He chooses society's opinion of him versus his family's. As the story progresses it becomes more clear that Okonkwo deals with his emotions…

Questions about Irony The two most prominent examples of irony in Things Fall Apart are the District Commissioner’s novel, and the death of Okonkwo. After the entirety of the novel, the description of a whole world and culture with copious amounts of people, after the gigantic critical tragedy of Okonkwo, the District Commissioner decides to write a book. He ponders of giving this great man, powerful leader, a replete life, a single paragraph in his novel, “The Pacification of the Primitive…

Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe in 1958, tells the story of the Ibo people. The main character Okonkwo is an example of how strong men are represented and treated. The traditions, customs, and culture influence the people's behavior towards the men of the tribe. Gender plays an important role in the novel. It characterizes the genders structured roles and expectations according to what they have been taught by the Ibo culture. Everyone has a role and contributes to the benefit of the…

The role of the missionaries in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe have a negative presence throughout the book. Although, there was one factor that made the missionaries a positive presence in the novel. The role of the overpowering white culture in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian was entirely negative. The missionaries in Things Fall Apart were negative because of how they changed the culture for the worse. For example, on page 174 the text reads, ¨Umuofia had indeed changed…

One of the protagonists, Buggin’ Out, in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing desperately seeks the help of others throughout the film to boycott Sal’s Pizzeria. The pizzeria is located in a black neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sal’s pizzeria is owned and ran by Sal and his two sons, Vito and Pino, and Mookie. Pino seems to hold much of the black community around him in contempt. Things start to heat up after Buggin’ Out feels a flare of anger at Sal for not hanging pictures of African American celebrities…

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the author takes the readers on a trip to the Igbo tribe in Nigeria and shows the lifestyle, culture, and struggles that the villagers experienced before and after the European imperial era. The characters, plot, setting, theme, tragic hero, symbolism, figurative language, historical and cultural values and story development contributes to the critical analysis of the novel. It also contributes to writing and understanding the novel. The protagonist of…

abomination with others” (Achebe). This quote greatly depicts the moral of one of Achebe’s most successful novels. In the book, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, the author uses the introduction of Western ideas into the Ibo culture to overall develop a father-son motif between Okonkwo and Nwoye, along with the establishment of cultural identity. Additionally, in the novel Things Fall Apart, the main character, Okonkwo, is represented as a strong and fierce leader who experiences the fear of…