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Quotes From 'Things Fall Apart': An Analysis
In this novel about a journey up a river, a journey that can be read on a number of levels, the paragraph beginning, “The earth seemed unearthly...” is a rich site for the mining of meaning. Read the paragraph and deconstruct the argument that is being developed. Then write an essay that presents that argument and its support. Quote liberally from the text. You have 40 minutes.The earth seemed unearthly. We are used to looking at it like a chained-up monster, but there it was monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were . . . no, not inhuman. That was the worst part, knowing that they were not inhuman. They howled and made horrible faces, but you knew that they were human just like you, that you were distant relatives. It was ugly,
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