Yams were seen as the main farming crop and meal staple of people in Things Fall Apart. Yams took a lot of effort to farm, but was the main way of sustaining a good life. Yams were celebrated, as was the Goddess of the Earth.
it was God
Twins are a bad omen, and the twins are taken to the evil forest in earthenware pots and left to die.
Things Fall Apart is one of the most widely read books in Africa as well as around the world. It was a groundbreaking work, tackling a difficult subject from a unique point of view while making it presentable to the general public. It is widely taught in schools around the world.
The point of view makes it seem like a neutral narrator is explaining the conflicts between the cultures without being emotionally involved.
Things Fall Apart was written to describe Nigerian culture and the effects of European colonization upon it. It was also a response to the Western beliefs that the Africans were uncivilized and barbaric.Achebe got most of his view from his own culture through the writing of Europeans. At first he related to the European writings, but as time went on, he felt they were poor caricatures and stereotypes of the actual people, and he tried to show this through his writing.1- Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson, seen as a racist writing2- The consequences of the European Colonization.3- 'Things Fall Apart' was also said to be inspired / as a response to Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'.The title comes from the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats which is about the demise of a society by colonisation:THE SECOND COMINGTurning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;A shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itWind shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?He wrote Things Fall Apart to give an example of man's inhumanity against man.
Heart of Darkness explored the exploitation of Africa from a pure European perspective. It doesn't describe the culture of the africans nor giving them any human qualities. They are seen as part of nature and therefore disregarded. Achebe challenged this European view of depicting a lack of culture by writing Things Fall Apart full with folktales, Igbo sayings and giving the Africans a face while still staying impartial towards the Europeans. In doing so he responded to Heart of Darkness by completely tearing apart the description that Joseph Conrad had given of Africa.
Twins are a bad omen, and the twins are taken to the evil forest in earthenware pots and left to die.
Well the white people aren't really cool in the things fall apart as they were in the white man's burden. One man's trash is another man's treasure. In that case, fortune telling cookies are not a really a reliable source for wisdom.
The style is intended to be an impartial narrative with points of view from multiple characters.
If one fails to do the god's or goddesses' will it is considered evil, and the god's wrath will be drawn upon the land to cleanse the evil.
Things Fall Apart is one of the most widely read books in Africa as well as around the world. It was a groundbreaking work, tackling a difficult subject from a unique point of view while making it presentable to the general public. It is widely taught in schools around the world.
The point of view makes it seem like a neutral narrator is explaining the conflicts between the cultures without being emotionally involved.
Not at all. The narrator seeks to hold a neutral view, viewing neither as purposefully good nor bad, but as people who's weaknesses and strengths affect them and others in many ways, both good and bad.
Different African people view the culture of the Ibo in different ways. The ones having grown up in this culture mostly see it as a proud culture, the culture of their fathers, and their fathers. It is a just culture. Some question the reasonableness of parts of the culture, including the wisdom of killing twins, and exiling people for accidental deaths, but generally trust in the wisdom of the elders and the gods. Foreign African people might see the culture as strange or different. This really depends on the individual.
i guess people view them as more humble uncapable to do bad things even though EVERYONE sins.
i guess people view them as more humble uncapable to do bad things even though EVERYONE sins.
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