Things Fall Apart

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…

Chinua Achebe reveals the faults within the Ibo society in his novel, Things Fall Apart. The Ibo community is located in Southern Nigeria with “low-lying deltas and riverbank areas [that] are heavily inundated during the rainy season, and are very fertile” (Countries and Their Cultures 1). Okonkwo, the main protagonist in the novel, is obsessed with many things, but specifically the growing of his yams. The reader later discovers that the number of yams a man grows reflects their rank in the…

the villagers succumb to the influences of the missionaries and, to Okonkwo’s horror, his son is among those who convert. “Okonkwo was deeply grieved. And it was not just a personal grief. He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women.”(170, Achebe). Here is Okonkwo’s view on the changes taking place in his clan. Okonkwo is horrified and saddened…

would only make it worse. In another view, the fault could actually be put upon Clara. Instead of accepting the challenge of being ‘pioneers’ to create a more broad minded future – which was one of Obi’s objectives – Clara ignorantly refuses to carry things forward with Obi and returns the ring. Following this, she appears to hate Obi – so much so that she would never want to be the mother of his child. Obi’s…

YOUR TITLE GOES HERE What is cultural collision? Culture collision is a clash in cultures or certain values.The way Nwoye’s see’s the identity of the new cultural changes in the Ibo culture.He began in the book as shy but thanks to the British colonist and the ibo people, He branched out and showed people he could be different. The reasons for him changing in his identity was for him finding himself within the act, and the introduction of the new religion.Overall he and the cultural collision…

laziness” (Achebe 13). Nwoye displaying lazy habits which reminded Okonkwo of his father. When interacting with others, “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” (Achebe 28). Because Unoka showed emotions and appeared weak, Okonkwo views emotions other than anger as weak. If someone shows emotions like love or compassion, they show that they are weak, at least in…

Okonkwo is an amazing, wealth man that is feared by many. Okonkwo is well respected warrior of the Umofia clan and he is undefeated, he brought honor to his village once he defeated “the cat” in a wrestling contest. Okonkwo is feared by many because he is strong and doesn’t fear anything. On one of his battle he cut of five heads the enemies men and drank wine from one of the dead man’s head. He has a huge family, he has three wives and eleven kids. Okonkwo family fears him as well and Okonkwo…

Peace. He broke the peace of the sacred week and was looked down upon very much because of it. His community was disappointed in him and suddenly saw that he was not, by any means, as perfect as they thought him to be. This is when he began to truly fall apart.…

The Bible says that for everything there is a season. That means that things will change as time passes and sometimes, there is no way to stop it. This idea is clearly shown throughout the novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. This novel, set in West Africa in the late 1800s, details the violent events that occur when the white men who follow Christianity begin to colonize in the villages of Nigeria. This causes a series of rippling issues that spread across the lands of the people…

In the novel Things Fall Apart the genders do mean an abundance of things. The males are treated like gods, being worshipped, and obeyed. The males take charge and treat the females like property. But for children the gender idea flips sides with the females being treated better than the male children. In the novel Things Fall Apart the main character Okonkwo beats his son Nwoye because Okonkwo believes Nwoye will become lazy and does not want Nwoye to become like Okonkwo’s father Unoka.…