Things Fall Apart

The novel, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe tells the story of a very proud man by the name of Okonkwo, who lives in a tribal village in Nigeria, when his life and the ways of his culture are torn apart by the Europeans. Animal imagery is very common in the folktales, fables, proverbs, oral traditions, and theories on the causes of natural phenomena that the people of the tribe exchange with each other. They use these animal figures to explain not only natural phenomena that science had not…

The story Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe is about the Igbo tribes in Nigeria. If you read the book you would recognize why the book is titled like that. In the beginning, things were fine, but as things go on, and events unfold, things start crumbling. Their encounters with the Christians is a large part of the reason they “fall apart.” A big event that happened that could be considered things falling apart was when Okonkwo and his family were exiled for seven years. Okonkwo was identified…

The book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe tells of an Ibo village in Africa and its culture, along with how they are changed after the missionaries from England come to their villages. The missionaries impose their beliefs and religion onto the Ibo people through school and preaching the “right way to live”. The characters followed in this book are Okonkwo, an icon in the Ibo village; Nwoye, Okonkwo’s outsider son; and Obierika, one of Okonkwo’s good friends. This book helps to…

lives, and the story of Things Fall Apart is no exception. The story is about a man named Okonkwo in 19th century Umuofia, Nigeria. The country is a male-centric patriarchy of sorts, however, women are an integral part of society. These strong women would be considered oppressed by western standards, but in Umuofia sexist social constructs are normal, and are not unlike western society’s. A feminist reader must not resort to a west is best mindset in reading Things Fall Apart because, some…

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…

Forces, the third feature of the tragic template, have a profound impact on the characters in Things Fall Apart, most specifically, Okonkwo. Forces are things that are outside of the control of the character. The outside force that has the greatest impact on Okonkwo is the arrival of European missionaries. The missionaries came to Umuofia, Mbanta, and the surrounding villages with the intention of spreading Christianity to the native people of Africa. This affects Okonkwo personally because his…

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is probably the most authentic and outstanding narrative ever written about colonial rule in Africa history at the turn of the twentieth century. The book was first published in 1958 and reprinted in 1962 (Achebe), which became the first novel in the African writer’s series. This book was written by a Nigerian and it set the village of Umuofia in eastern Nigeria. Achebe portrays a remarkable movement in Africa history as the man who invented African literature…

Things Fall Apart is the story of a group of Nigerian villages in the late 1800s that is discovered by white missionaries. The story starts by profiling Okonkwo, who is a prominent figure in the village. After his firearm misfires during a funeral and kills an innocent boy Okonkwo and his family are exiled from Umuofia for seven years, during this time Okonkwo plots his return plans to become a village lord. During this exile missionaries start appearing in the neighboring villages and…

therefore, we try to avoid it, but avoiding failure is not always a good thing. Through failure we gain experience and knowledge that ultimately leads us to reaching our potential. In both novels, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Chebe and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the authors use Okonkwo and Kurtz’s personalities and their pressures of social and natural environments to cause their own personal failures. In the novel, Things Fall Apart, Chebe begins by saying how Okonkwo, who is the main…

In the novel, Things Fall Apart the chi is a concept that is based around a character’s individual god. A character's quality is determined by their fortune, whether it's a good or bad chi. The idea of the chi controls and determines a character’s luck or misfortune which can be seen in the novel through the Umuofia clan. The Umuofia clan believes that if a character has a negative chi, then they will encounter bad situations. In the novel the chi is first introduced through the character, Unoka…