Things Fall Apart Dialectical Journal

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Brianna Thomas 1/1/15 English IB HL 319 FAQ SHEET FULL TITLE & AUTHOR : “ Things Fall Apart” By Chinua Achebe GENRE : Post Colonial Novel Based on African American Culture & Legends LANGUAGE: English TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN : 1959 in Nigeria DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION : First Published in 1958 PUBLISHER · Heinemann Educational Books NARRATOR: Anonymous, the novel has a lot of different characters that they tend to focus on a lot throughout the book. There is really no specific person that can be called he narrator. POINT OF VIEW : The point of view is based on Okonkwo and his journey throughout the novel and how his actions take over and how he is told that he would have severe consequences…show more content…
They believed if the child whistled it would bring the evil spirits. 3. Chapter 2 : “ Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala. That was how Okonkwo first came to know that agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken no title. And so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion – to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.” • In my opinion, this quote means that Okonkwo was tired of being compared to his father and how his father did certain things that others didn’t like he wanted to me known as Okonkwo the Great Warrior for being himself and no one else. It came to a point where all he did was just do things that made him seem like his dad in some type of way. 4. Chapter 2 : “ Okonkwo was not afraid of war. He was a man of action, a man of war. Unlike his father he could stand the look of blood. In Umuofia's latest war he was the first to bring home a human…show more content…
By reading this quote it’s telling me that men didn’t agree with the women staying with the children. The men were the leaders of the household so they felt as if they had to take care of the children and stay with their kids because it would just be right. When Machi states “ You might as well say that the women lies on top of the man when they are making children.” Goes to show you how the men need to be noticed and viewed as the ones that are in control and the one that has the say rather then, the women being in control because it just doesn’t roll like
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