We were asked to read the story “Marriage Is a Private Affair” written by Chinua Achebe. The story was about a young man from Ibo‚ Nnaemeka‚ who was from the Igbo/Ibo tribe and who was now living in the city of Lagos. Nmaemeka who went home to talk to his father about a girl named Nene whom he was deeply in love with. Okeke‚ his father‚ refuses to accept Nene as his son’s wife in the future. In fact‚ Okeke has chosen a wife for Nmaemeka who was Ugoye Nweke. Ugoye was a girl who Okeke believes to
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Things Fall Apart is one of the first novels by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe and is the most popular book in modern African literature. The novel was first published in 1958 and is very popular all around the world. The novel follows the life of Okonkwo‚ leader of the Ibo tribe and local wrestling champion in the fictional Nigerian village of Umuofia. Chinua Achebe was himself a part of the Igbo (Ibo) tribe. The story takes place in Nigeria around 1890‚ mostly in the villages Umuofia and Mbanta
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Kaitlyn Benage Chinua Achebe The book things fall apart successfully expresses how Chinua Achebe had succeeded in writing a different story. It pointed out the conflict of one’s self‚ the traditional beliefs‚ and the religious matters of the Africans. Throughout the book Chinua Achebe used simple words and unlike other books he also included some flash backs to make the book more interesting. Things fall apart was about a man named Okonkwo‚ who was always struggling with his inner fear although
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(especially since Achebe doesn’t fail to pay a tribute to Salman Rushdie’s essay of the same name published in 1982). Because that is what the running theme here is - a reclamation of a land and a culture that was wrested away with brutal force and made a part of an ’Empire’ which still insists on viewing that period as one of glory and not characterized by the most despicable human rights violation ever and a heralding of the arrival of the African voice in the world literary scene. Achebe is slowly
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Depending on how the person reacts can either make or break him. A positive reaction to conflict‚ will in turn‚ result in a positive outcome‚ while a negative reaction will give a negative outcome. The main character in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ Okonkwo‚ is one of many examples of a positive outlook on a negative situation. During the funeral of Ezeudu‚ Okonkwo’s gun accidentally fired and killed a boy. Okonkwo was forced to be exiled to his to his mother’s homeland. By fleeing his home
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’Marriage is a private affair’ – by Chinua Achebe ‘Marriage is a private affair’ is a short story written by Chinua Achebe‚ in the year 1952. The story takes place in Lagos in Nigeria in the 1950ies. The most important point in this story is the cultural and religious differences between Nene and Nnaemeka’s families. Therefor the main theme of the text is the clash between two cultures. The text is also dealing with other subthemes such as‚ love‚ arranged marriage‚ father and son relationship (Nnaemeka’s
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“Things Fall Apart was written by’ Chinua Achebe in 1958. Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian but brought up in a Christian household. While in college Achebe studied history and theology from which he developed his passion for Indigenous Nigerian culture. After reading books that showed just how backwards and primitive African cultures are he published ‘Things Fall Apart’” (SparkNotes Editors). The book showed the “culture clashes between the Native African culture and Traditional White culture of the
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clearly patterned after Achebe’s native Nigeria‚ though one can also see elements of Liberia and Ghana. This was the first Achebe novel I had read since his classic Things Fall Apart. At first‚ I thought that Anthills suffered in comparison with that masterpiece‚ arguably the best known and most influential African novel. After finishing the book‚ though‚ I realized that Achebe had very deftly returned to and updated the themes raised in that book. His protagonists are Ikem‚ a courageous and opinionated
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The novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ by Chinua Achebe. The book deals with Okonkwo‚ as the main character‚ and how he approaches Christianity. The novel shows the impact of a western culture on the Ibo society and how the citizens have to adapt to the new changes and beliefs. Achebe‚ wanted to show readers that‚ culture and ideas do fall apart and diminish after a while. White men arrived in Africa as traders and missionaries. Is the Ibo culture civilized or barbaric? Was the arrival of the white missionaries
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race has different culture values‚ making them think other cultures are wrong. A person’s culture is normal to themselves so as they look at different cultures they might think their weird‚ not realizing that their culture is similar to another. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart‚ they showed that colonization was not right by the Showing what happened to Okonkwo’s identity and how it was changed by the British‚ also it showed how his identity being changed affected the tribe. The identity of Okonkwo
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