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Submitted by godbodyger on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Things Fall Apart
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"Things fall apart and nothing ever stays the same", is what someone should have to Okonkwo, the protagonist in the novel entitled Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This is a book for people of all ages and should be read with an open mind because there are certain things in the literature that need to be explained such as traditional African culture. It is filled with traditional African names and practices that are unfamiliar and/or frowned upon in the western world. As I summarized the book we will see how things fell apart and how things could have been different.
Things Fall Apart was set in Nigeria, West Africa. The British colonized it during the 1800's 1900's, which had a major impact on the different societies (now miscalled "tribes") in West Africa. Okonkwo was a wrestler, hardworking, wealthy, titled man who had a high position in his society. He was respected for significant personal achievements and with two daughters and a son, who he knew one day would follow in his footsteps.
Over the course of his lifetime Okonkwo made some
mistakes. He physically abused his wives and participated in killing and accidently shot a kinsman. His punishment for the crime was expulsion. Okonkwo's
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exile led to the advent of british/western culture. Okonkwo knew that the seven years in exile had lowered his status in the hierarchy of Umuofia, but he was prepared to regain what would appear to have lost. He would gain status also by getting his beautiful daughters married. But it didn't happen that way. When he finally came back the white man brought elements to the society that gained positive attention and attracted the Africans because they never saw before example, the "iron horse", known to many as a bicycle. Nwoye changed his name to Isaac and abandoned his Ibo traditions.
Okonkwo felt, without his family he is nothing. He committed suicide without a fight or...
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