Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | Summary & Analysis

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Lemme guess.. Your in 8th grade?

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this is a random question, but what is the name of the village of Okonkwo??

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Excellent and articulated delivery summary of this wonderful book. Much appreciated.

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

why is the climax the destruction of the church? I thought it was Okonkwo killing the messenger and then realising that the clan wouldn't go to war, because it's when his character has the biggest (and practically only) development. Seeing as he is the main character, any turning point in his character should be the climax. The entire book lead up to him finally realising that he is powerless.

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great take, I also disagree

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Hearing about this book for the first time. The summary of the book was well presented. Thank you professor.

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Loved listening to this series before I do the audiobook. Really aids the listening when you know who and what to look our for. Thank you.

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Read this book 10+ years ago for a HS class… the only thing I remembered was the father committing suicide at the end and the importance of yams. After hearing the summary, it makes me want to re-read the book

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Thank you for this summary ma'am, it really helped a lot preparing for my exam tomorrow

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Sounds interesting because gives the different perspective on how new cultural influences both help and harm an existing culture. Colonialism brought many benefits to Africa but lead to many new challenges and a real loss of their culture. I don't blame them for seeing white men as locusts.

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This summary will be helpful for me in the way towards University exam B4

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[@user-qk2cv4zo3m]

Betrayal 1. Nwoye abandoning his father and the Igbo society and covert to Christianity 2. Okonkwo killing Ikemefuna even though the boy calls him father and he is secretly fond of him 3. The clan’s response to the invasion of the white men with passivity rather than strength and they did not aggressively fighting back. Okonkwo sees the clan’s acceptance of the missionaries as a betrayal of the clan’s tradition and their warlike ancestors

[@calebsanchez4861]

Another point is his upbringing of hyper masculinity because of his clan’s perspective of his father whether correct or not through narrative of the clan or Christian settlers. Okonkwo didn’t want Ikemefuna because he didn’t want to show weakness to his son, henceforth the hyper masculinity but ultimately pushed his son to convert.

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the summary was more clear than the book itself tbh.

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I have a non-redoable essay due in less than an hour and I haven’t read the book pls wish me luck

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@Makena Ruggia I got a B 17/20

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I have a test and Socratic seminar for this book which will determine whether or not I get into Honors English wish me luck...

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Things falls apart is the best written novel in this universe

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*cough cough* diary of a wimpy kid *cough cough*

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appreciate it im supposed to be reading this for my class but in on chapter 3 instead of 16

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⚠key moments have been missed out in the summary! be careful if you haven't read the novel!

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I am now reading the book as well as processing information from the summary since this was supposed to be summer work which I did not get so I have 2 weeks to finish it I will try not to have a bad start on sophomore year 😁

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Please can you help me with some aspects of discrimination in the novel Things Fall Apart? With concrete examples.

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Watching this summary because I have a class in two days and I'm supposed to read the whole book before the class

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who else watching this for an English test

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taking a test on this book in an hour and I have only read 1/3 of the book wish me luck

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Pls what are the things that influenced Okonkwo's life

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Our teacher gave us a story which is "Things fall apart (an axcerpt) but this is not the story I was searching for do you know where could I find it?

[@_rt_]

Some scenes aren't described here

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I'm about to go so hard in my Seminar tomorrow wish me luck

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I have an essay where I’m comparing this and the metamorphosis I already read that one tho so this is the one I gotta watch

[@mediawarmonger3850]

Okonkwo be like: "let me show you my biceps"

[@uviwezono3581]

But why to kill Ikemefuna he did nothing wrong or was it because they needed money out of him?

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POV: You have a mid term tomorrow for Kassim Kone ANT 102

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bro i gotta compare this to other books ive read but i dont remember my other books im cooked

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[@bellakemp]

This is very helpful, but perhaps because given by a white European, full of standard white guilt, does not fully acknowledge the author's subtlety . Nwoye welcomed the coming of the missionaries because he saw an alternative to the macho male culture symbolized by Okonkwo's violence. This was a society in which women had almost no power. If a women gave birth to twins they were murdered because it was thought they were evil. Ikemefuna was murdered simply because the Oracle had ordered it. The Igbo certainly had an established culture and society but it wasn't one this professor would have much liked to have lived in - she would have been one of a husband's many wives and certainly would never have the status she now enjoys in European culture. But because Achebe was a genius, he also shows how much good the Europeans destroyed. The old Igbo society had to go (imagine, dear Professor, being a woman or gay or one who doubts there are such things as gods in that village) but Achebe's point is that it was a great pity that neither side could find a happy compromise.

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The compromise is the important aspect. If the Westerners could not bent even an inch why make the Igbos bend so much they break their back?

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@@simplyizustic6122 Good question Izustic, you can't be in the West and East at the same time. Since the white man refuse to hear the black man story why here his own.

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