Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, once said, “The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.” In this quote, Achebe is referring to the damage that the Christian religion did to the Nigerian culture. Achebe is the author of Things Fall Apart, a book that he wrote to spread knowledge of this damage. The main character of Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo, is a very strict man and his son, Nwoye, is deemed womanly by Okonkwo. Nwoye, to compensate, does everything he
In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe the main character Okonkwo shows many flaws throughout the story, one flaw that stood out was his anger. This essay will show examples of how he could not control his anger when he beat his wife, how he could not handle his problems with words, and when he beat his son Nwoye. By reading this book Okonkwo showed numerous examples of his anger problems. One example that would display his anger is when he beat his wife. It was during the peace of the week
their culture. In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe illustrates how imperialism changed the igbo culture.
allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart” (Achebe 176). This reference identifies exactly the themes presented in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. It displays the difficulties the Igbo people faced in their interactions with the Christian church. This quote perfectly identifies the internal struggle of the main character, Okonkwo, and many others like him. In fact, it models
disagreement. ‘Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest.’” (111) This quote represents where in the story the Ibo people are trying to be deceitful by allowing the missionaries to build a church in the Evil Forest with hopes they will all be struck down but they soon learn that their plan has backfired. Okonkwo believes the missionaries and the new faith that they are trying to spread is all completely insane and finding out Nwoye had betrayed him by converting to Christianity killed him inside, although
Cassidy Bulger In the novel, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, protagonist Okonkwo starts off with a sense of nobility and respect based on “solid personal achievements” that he has made. However he can be considered a tragic hero based on the parameters set by Aristotle, including his tragic flaw which is his fear of weakness and failure. The elements of a tragic hero prove that even someone as well respected and popular as Okonkwo can falter and be classified as a tragic hero. In Achebe’s
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