Category: Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart’: The Importance of Adapting to Changes in a Book by Chinua Achebe Cesar Chavez once said, Preservation of ones own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. Respecting other cultures is very important if you want to have peace within your own culture. In the book Things Fall Apart…

Things Fall Apart’: Language as a Bridge to Understanding in a Novel by Chinua Achebe The author is largely successful in developing a blend between the English language and the culture of the Ibo people. Using this European language to define various unfamiliar words, explain customs, fabricate ways of thinking and translate metaphors creates the…

Literary Devices In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart INTRODUCTION Things Fall Apart is an African novel written by famous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader (chief) of an Igbo community. It follows the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through…

Understanding The Problems and Authenticity of African Society Through Chinua Achebes Works Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist born on November 16th, 1930 has been described by many as Africas most influential writer of his generation. Achebe continues to receive tremendous praise for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation that came with the…

A Dead Men’s Path’ Analysis Imagine one day you are enjoying peace amongst your family and a white man forces his way into your place of living, driving you to surrender your social convictions. While he discloses to you that he and his men are better finished than you, yet they are the foreigners. Simply…

Things Fall Apart: the Importance of Pride Throughout the beginning of Things Fall Apart, one of the most notable symbols is Okonkwos pride. Okonkwo is portrayed as a very prideful man, who is driven entirely by his ache for status and ability to be manly. He is afraid of becoming like his father and becoming…

Short Story Analysis: ‘Marriage is a Private Affair’ by Chinua Achebe The excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve and Marriage Is a Private Affair demonstrate the negative and the positive influences of modern ideas and modern ways on traditional cultures. To begin with, one of the pronounced positive influences of modern ways on traditional cultures…

Gender Roles in Things Fall Apart In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, gender stereotypes profoundly influence the entire village, the Ibo society has a strict system of behavioral customs that are assigned by gender. They have restricted the freedom of Ibo women to present that Ibo men are superior to women and…

The Tragic Hero In Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart In this essay I am going to analyse the tragic role of the central character from the novel Things Fall Apart written by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1958, Okonkwo, who goes from having a good life and power within his clan to being a…

Literary Devices In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart INTRODUCTION Things Fall Apart is an African novel written by famous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader (chief) of an Igbo community. It follows the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through…