Things Fall Apart

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Things Fall Apart “Things Fall Apart” takes place in a village called Umuofia in Nigeria around the 1900s. The story also migrates around different villages surrounding Umuofia. Umuofia starts to notice changes when foreigners start to wander into the small town. The setting of the book affects the aspect of how we see the characters in it. We could see how they lived in huts. They did not live in houses in which they did not have the materials for them. Wood would have to be acquired in the “Evil Forest” which was a forbidden location to be at. Only the ones that were killed from doing crimes as well as people who did not give an effort to help out the city. Many people were scared of this place and never visited the site. Okonkwo the main character in the book has to suffer from what nature brings. Okonkwo becomes one of the best wrestlers in the village. He was well known …show more content…

This was when the story started to build up, many people started to worry what was going to happen to them. The Europeans were searching for place to spread their religion, and as they saw, it wasn't so much of a civilized town. So they knew they could teach them all about christianity. The village started to change up when the Europeans came, the counsel of the village gave them the ‘Evil Forest’ so they can build their church. The people thought they would die, but when the Europeans renovated the area they knew something was up. The Europeans began to build governments around the city which led to people changing. That is when everyone who was loyal in the community started to fall, many of them knew it was over. The main character Okonkwo killed himself because he knew he wasn't a man anymore, “That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself, and now he will be buried like a dog”(Chapter 25

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