Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

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A single story is all it takes to change someone. The author ,Chinua Achebe, challenges the idea of a single story in his novel," Things fall apart." In this story, it explores collonialism from a different view. It follows the main character Okonkwo, a stong masculin figure in his village, and his fall from fame. From one bad omen to another, cristianity closes in on the small village of umuofia. In Achebe's novel, "Things fall Apart," He shows how collonialism can cause conflict between relationships through the character Oknokwo and his experiances.
Before collonialism had weeded its way into Okonkwo life, he alredy struggled. Okonkwo was very quick to anger and ," Had no pacience with unscucsessful men,"(Achebe 14) beause of his problamatic …show more content…

Okonkwo paid little attention and spent little effort thinking about the missionaries untill they took his son. He belived that his fellow vilagers were above the christian nonsence the white people were spewing. it wasn’t untill nooye belived them that he understood the power of their words. Okonkwo turns to what he knows best to solve the problem at hand, violence. Okonkwo,"grabbed him by the neck,"(achebe 145) and," hit him two or three savage blows," before cutting nowye out of his life. Their relationship ended abruptly, and savagley. Despite okonkwo's cold cut demeanor, he is still hrut about the subject and," did not wis to speak about nowye," when questioned by obierka. Collonialism led okonkwo to contenue the father-son relationship issues that he had with his father, with …show more content…

Okonkwo saw the clan," breaking up and falling apart".(achebe 170) Okonkwo's wasn't nearly as rememborable as he wished which caused him deep sorrow. He saw his comerads," become soft like women,"(achebe 170). He felt dissconnected from his tribe, like he had lost a close friend. After all of the haeart ache caused by all the losses he felt, Okonkwo once again went to what felt natural to him, violence. After being csptured by the White people and being cut off from everyone he cared for, okonkwo decided to Act violently against himself and end his

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