Things Fall Apart

He uses his pride as a mechanism to avoid showing signs of weakness and maintaining his respected status in Mafia. His personal pride allows him to celebrate his success and separate himself from the shame of his father: “He had begun even in his father’s lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous future. It…

In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo committed a crime and had to leave the village for seven years. After he arrived back to Umuoafia, he saw that the white men have changed a lot of things and many of his kinsmen joined the white men. I am writing this task as an alternative ending…

“Okonkwo’s machete descended twice and the man’s head lay beside his uniformed body” (146). Okonkwo, the son of the effeminate and lazy Unoka, strives to make his way in a world that seems to value manliness. In so doing, he rejects everything for which he believes his father stood. Unoka was idle, poor, profligate, cowardly,…

Throughout “Things Fall Apart” various proverbs are used to teach the cause and effect of decisions, warn against certain events, and poetic words to find meaning. These types of proverbs are the most traditional and prominent ways of teaching in the Bio culture. Another prominent way in the Gobo culture is trying to obtain a…

Awoken considered Shameful as one of his own sons. He was truly saddened when he was killed. There were quite few effects on Awoken from that horrible event. At first, Awoken was not able to sleep for days. He also kept on getting drunk, and that was a sign that he was miserable. Another thing,…

Awoken fails to free himself from his major character flaws, which ultimately brings about his tragic demise. Ginkgo’s first prominent flaw is his fear of failure, which is greatly influenced by his father, Knock, a very lazy and carefree man. He had a reputation of being “poor and his wife and children had barely enough…

It is obvious to me that to the characters in Things Fall Apart, omen are “things” to be exploited, abused and to serve as second-class citizens to the rank of male privilege. The theme of misogyny runs rampant throughout the text whether it is exposed by the absence of women in the text, the abuses…

Throughout the novel Things Fall Apart, the Umuofia villagers have experienced a transformation due to colonialism. This transformation is evident in their increased fear of losing their traditions, their growing inclination for change, and their sense of sorrow as their cultural practices are dismantled. Umuofia was a village characterized by its adherence to norms of…

This also proved to Awoken that he was nothing like his weak father. Awoken is then able to attain a position of wealth and gain a good and respected reputation, even though his father was shameful and poor. Numb- Linking Partake song Numb is about a person having to live up to someone else expectations….

Things fall apart In Things Fall Apart there are many cultural collisions created by the introduction of Western ideas into Bio culture. One example of a cultural collision caused by the introduction of Western ideas into Bio culture is when Ginkgo’s first son, Annoy converts to Christianity. This causes a cultural collision between Awoken and…