Things Fall Apart Rhetorical Analysis

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Exam Prompt 1 In the book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe, one of its first focal points was the local spiritual beliefs of the Igbo culture. The Igbo gods are an embodiment of nature and its surrounding elements, supports that they are an agricultural civilization that relies on the change of seasons and natural occurrences in order to survive. They worship the goddess of the earth and try their best not to go against her “principles” in fear of vengeance. The afterlife and the spirits of ancestors were powerful motivating factors. Each person had their own personal god, better described as chi. While chi wasn’t the most significant spirit that was praised, but was served as somewhat of a guardian angel, which can be a relative …show more content…

In the Epic of Sundiata and Things Fall Apart they show both sides of this argument. Sundiata has a strong relationship with his mother Sologon, mainly because what they had to endure during his childhood, but she never abandoned him even when times became tough they stood by each other. When Sogolon first arrived she faced many obstacles before birthing Sundiata, such as living up to prophecy, a hunchback and her appearance. Once she was pregnant with Sundiata she didn’t have an ordinary pregnancy, it lasted seven years before Sundiata was born. Their relationship hits a bright spot in the Epic when she is constantly harassed by the tactics of Sassouma and Sundiata’s slow development she snaps, cursing and hitting him. Sundiata doesn’t like seeing his mother like this and he wants to remove her pain. With that motivation he forces himself to walk after years of dragging his cripple body around. Even when Sundiata couldn’t walk his mother never lost faith in him she continued to take care even when his father began to lose faith in him. After his father Maghan Kon Fatta passes away his mother is literally the only person he has because Sassouma has turned everyone against him they counted on each other. Sundiata valued this so made sure his mother would never have to suffer like that ever again. His mother and his trials shaped him into the man he was destined to

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