depicts the life of Okonkwo‚ a leader and local wrestling champion in Umuofia—one of a fictional group of nine villages in Nigeria‚ inhabited by the Igbo people (archaically‚ and in the novel‚ "Ibo"). It focuses on his family and personal history‚ the customs and society of the Igbo and the influence of British colonialism and Christian missionaries on the Igbo community during the late nineteenth century. The theme of a novel is the driving force of the book during its creation. Even if the author
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collapse of the Igbo society and people during the british colonization of Nigeria in the early twentieth century. The author’s motif‚ the proper telling of the confound and inaccurate portrayal of the africans during the racist colonial era‚ was perfectly executed‚ presenting idyllic and faithful elements of the Igbo culture and customs. As a Nigerian writer himself‚ Achebe creates stereotypical characters for the colonialists‚ or «white men» as referred to in the book. The Igbo however are illustrated
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large percentage of American people were a free love and peaceful society. Over 6‚000 miles away in Nigeria‚ citizens were not even safe in their own homes because of the fear of being killed. Nigeria was in a crisis; they were in a civil war. The civil war included three different tribes: the Biafra (Igbo) people‚ the Yoruba‚ and the Hausa-Fulani. The conflict was so bad that the United Nations had to get involved. The Biafra tribe is better known as the Igbo people. The Igbo’s land first came to
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the novel written in 1959 by the Nigerian writer‚ Chinua Achebe. The novel itself is ironic‚ tragic and satirical where the author at most describes the conflict between the traditional society of Umuofia with the new customs brought by the white people. Another theme of the novel is contributed through the protagonist‚ Okonkwo‚ who struggles to be strong‚ masculine‚ respected family man‚ rather than his father‚ Unoka - weak‚ effeminate‚ lazy and poor. Through this novel‚ Chinua Achebe tries to
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THINGS FALL APART: AN ATONEMENT OF THE PAST As one of the many Africans who had been Europeanized‚ Chinua Acehebe’s faith had been at crossroads with his knowledge of the Igbos. In his essay‚ Named for Victoria‚ Queen of England‚ he recounted how his family would sing praises to the Lord and read the Bible all day long and how the next day‚ his relatives would come over and offered food to idols. According to Achebe‚ he didn’t feel any undue distress or experience spiritual agonies for such
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ritual and communion observances of the Igbo people (Otagburuagu‚ 2010:93). However‚ the general perception‚ both in literature and among the Igbo people is that women have nothing to do with the kolanut or oji (Igbo rendition). This view has been articulated by many scholars (for instance Green 1947 and Uchendu 1965). Women thus are assumed to play only a peripheral role in the use of the kolanut. This view however is not entirely surprising because Igbo culture‚ since colonial invasion‚ has experienced
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The narrator uses a third person’s point of view making us understand who Okonkwo was from an outsider point of view and the Igbo culture . The use of the third person gives us a non-biased opinion on the character the description in the passage : ‘He was tall and huge‚and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look .’ we can interpret that he was sturdy and imposing. The way he was described fits perfectly with his character. Okonkwo was a wrestler‚ one of the greatest of all time
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Provinces and Lagos colony (Government Printing office [GPO]‚ 1991). Nigeria became an independent state on October 1st 1960‚ at that time the country consisted of 60 million people from 300 different ethnic and cultural groups dominated by the Muslim‚ less educated Hausa in the north‚ the more educated and mostly Christian Igbo in the south-east and the Yoruba from the West. These three groups had divergent languages‚ cultures
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People all over the world worship many gods‚ goddesses‚ and other higher beings. Some religions are monotheistic‚ worship one god or goddess‚ others are polytheistic‚ worship multiple gods and goddesses. In the book “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe‚ the author demonstrates the Igbo tribes polytheistic religion by showing the people worshiping many gods‚ goddesses‚ and spirits; such as‚ they worship a god named Chukwu‚ two minor gods‚ a minor goddess‚ and six different spirits. The first and
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of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an alien culture of environment without adequate preparation. Cultural shock is experienced by many different people across the world everyday. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ the main character‚ Okonkwo‚ experiences cultural shock. Things Fall Apart focuses on the culture in Nigeria of the Ufomia tribe‚ the Igbo culture. Okonkwo‚ the main character‚ is a high-ranked leader of the tribe and strongly believes in the Igbo culture. When white missionaries
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