Things Fall Apart

The people in Things Fall Apart are villagers of the Igbo tribe.

1. During a village meeting, after Osugo contradicts him, Okonkwo responds without looking, saying "This meeting is for men." Osugo is an agbala with no titles.

2. Later, when Ojiugo neglects to cook for Okonkwo and her children, Okonkwo beats her heavily despite it being the Week of Peace.

3. After being rebuked by priest of the earth goddess for this act, Okonkwo was not outwardly repentant.

4. When training his children to cut yams, he threatens to break Nwoye's jaw when pointing out one of his mistakes. He menaces Ikemefuna too for his lack of skill.

Chielo helps show some of the religious culture of the Igbo. Further, her story serves as a way to reinforce the Ezinma-Ekwefi ties, as well as make Okonkwo out to be a more sympathetic character, despite his harsh outwards demeanour.

The elders expect that the gods will shower their wrath on the missionaries and that the Christians will be dead within a week. This is because they have built their church in the evil forest.

Internal Conflict: Huck dealing with his conscience(society), and his acceptance for Jim as equal to him.

External Conflict: Pap beating up Huck, when Huck and Jim got separated, Jim and Huck camping out in bad weather.

The fable of the tortoise, is how a greedy tortoise tricked the birds during a feast with man in the heavens, and ended up eating most of the food. In revenge, a bird played a trick on tortoise, causing tortoise to break his shell, making it all bumpy when reformed.

You didn't read the yam book at all, did you?

Personally, i dont sympathize with him at all because many of the events that occured, Okonkwo brought onto himself. For example, the beating of his wife during the week of peace, and his murder of Ikemefuna; the ideal son of Okonkwo.

At the end of chapter 13, on page 124.

At Ezeudu's funeral, Okonkwo's gun explodes during a gun salute and a piece of iron goes into Ezeudu's 16 year old son's heart.

They are listened to respectfully for 5 days, and then given land in the evil forest to build their church. They build the church and convert people gradually. At one point their followers are ostracized by the Mbantans, but this does not last long, and eventually life goes back to normal.

The Christian church was burnt down for multiple reasons.

1. It was harbouring the criminal Enoch, who unmasked and killed the egwugwu spirit.

2. It had 'bred abominations' (such as Enoch).

There are various reasons for this. One is that he is writing about Igbo culture, so there are some words that do not translate directly into English. At other times, a translation into English would provide additional unwanted subtext that a word carries in a specific language. He also wishes to highlight the differences between the Ibo culture and the English culture, noting that they have different instruments for example. Their gong is not just a gong, but is a ogene. In this way he shows that there does exist a complicated culture among the tribesmen.

Their is none. Things fall apart has nothing to do with religion. Did you read the book?

Nwoye begins emulating Ikemefuna, and outwardly showing stereotypical masculine qualities, like grumbling about women and their troubles, feigning annoyance, and pretending he no longer cared for stories his mother and other women told. He was sent to do more difficult masculine tasks like splitting wood, and pounding food. Nwoye also began listening more to his father's stories, including those of wrestling and war.

He feels that he has a duty to the gods and the Oracle to participate. He delivers the killing blow because when Ikemefuna cries out to him, he inwardly feels compassion, and worries that he might do something that would cause him to be seen as unmanly, like attempting to save the child. Okonkwo overcompensates by killing Ikemefuna himself, and ending the personal trial.

Chielo is friends with Ekwefi, and they get along well. Chielo sometimes gives bean cakes to Ekwefi to give to Ezinma. However, when Chielo becomes the priestess, she becomes like a completely separate person with no empathetic relationship with Ekwefi. Ekwefi is afraid of this incarnation of Chielo.

The story of how the tortoise got a bumpy shell is told in things fall apart.

Another story is that of Mother Kite who sent her daughter to get food. Her daughter first took a duckling but returned it because the mother said nothing. She then returned with a chick and could eat it because the mother cursed it.

If that were to happen to me, i would try to be around him more, and think of the things he would want to do. then i would invite the family, including him and see if he comes. if he does,then be nice about everything. if it is fishing, and he cooks the fish, offer to cook the fish for him this time! try it!

'Progress' appears with the coming of Christianity and the European colonists.

It is unknown whether this progress actually causes progress.

In some ways, it rescues particular people from being shunned from the rest of the tribe, and provides them tools that they didn't have before. In other ways, it causes the previous civilization to fall apart.

The last paragraph centers around the Commissioner in Lower Niger.

There are 179 words in the paragraph.

There are 800 characters without spaces.

There are 978 characters with spaces.

There are 12 sentences

There is one sentence fragment in the paragraph.

There are

66 a's

12 b's

22 c's

29 d's

91 e's

19 f's

17 g's

61 h's

61 i's

0 j's

8 k's

25 l's

26 m's

51 n's

63 o's

13 p's

0 q's

44 r's

38 s's

82 t's

23 u's

6 v's

18 w's

0 x's

8 y's

1 z.

There are 3 commas.

The commissioner went away. It doesn't specifically say where the commissioner went away to, or away from. One could assume the author was talking about away from the messenger who spoke last. However, the commissioner could also be going away from Obierika, Okonkwo's best friend who continues to drown himself in remorse. He could simply be going away from Okonkwo's body. He could be going away from all of these.

The commissioner is a man, as shown by the use of masculine pronouns, him, he.

The commissioner has soldiers. He has multiple soldiers. He probably has more soldiers than are immediately stated there. He has at least 4 soldiers. It doesn't say if the messenger is included as a soldier. He probably brought multiple soldiers since he didn't know if Okonkwo would try to kill more people. It doesn't say what weapons they have. You would assume guns, but it could also be knives. Maybe they have guns and knives. Perhaps they also have hammers. It doesn't say what type of uniforms they wear, but since they're soldiers you assume that they would wear uniforms for easy identification.

The commissioner has worked for many years to bring 'civilization' to Africa. It makes you wonder what civilization is. If the civilization in Africa was considered true civilization, could he bring it back to Europe? Does this imply there is no civilization in different parts of Africa? If other countries brought civilization to Africa would it compete with his civilization? Would he consider these other civilizations civilization? Achebe used the words 'different parts'. This does imply that there is more than 1 part. Indeed, the use of 'different parts' implicitly implies at least three different parts of Africa. One wonders what the commissioner considers parts. Or are these parts as considered by the author? Perhaps the commissioner's and author's definition of the word 'parts' differ. One could be talking about different landscapes, such as desert, lakes, tundra, whereas another could be talking about geographic parts. As the author is speaking we have to assume the author's definition, which is not implicitly defined in the paragraph. This sentence also implies that the commissioner is not from these parts of Africa. It could be assumed that the commissioner is from Europe, though that may not be true. The Commissioner might be from Northern Africa, or other 'civilized' areas of Africa, such as Egypt. Indeed, the District Commissioner might even be African, or Middle Eastern as opposed to the commonly assumed Caucasian.

The commissioner has learned many things during these years. This leads you to believe that the Commissioner is an educated man. He believes social status can be lost through actions.

Okonkwo hanged himself in a tree. In order to cut him down, you would need a knife of some sort, perhaps a machete.

The Comissioner thinks about writing his book. It seems that he has not started writing the book yet, or is maybe perhaps only at the note taking portion of his book writing exercise. He believes that every day brings new material to his book.

Notice how the Commissioner talks about putting Okonkwo in merely a paragraph in his book. However, Okonkwo is the star of this book! The commissioner uses the thought a reasonable paragraph. One now wonders what makes up a 'reasonable' paragraph. Is there such a thing as an unreasonable paragraph? The Commissioner refers to the Igbo as 'primitive,' and claims that they could undergo 'Pacification'. The title of the book seems to imply the necessity of pacifying the tribes.

Obi Okonkwo is the main character of the book No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe. This is the sequel to the book Things Fall Apart. Obi Okonkwo is the eldest son and 5th child of Isaac (Nwoye) Okonkwo, and grandson of Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart.

Obi Okonkwo is the first person from the 9 villages of Umuofia to go to England to be schooled post-secondary. Against the elders' wishes (whom provide him with the scholarship to be able to go there), he studies English as opposed to law. Becoming a senior-civil servant when he returns to Nigeria, Obi Okonkwo is caught up in a bribery scandal over 20 pounds and arrested.

Weddings are large occurrences involving the familes and friends of both bride and groom. This occurs after all the preparations have already occurred such as haggling and paying the bride price, and having the bride meet her suitor and relatives.

Everyone who is considered a kinsmen within their group called umunna, and their families are invited. After breakfast, women and children gather in the morning at the bride's father's compound to cook for the whole village. Gifts are brought to the compound. Many animals are slaughtered for the feast, including goats.

In the afternoon, the groom's side begins arriving bringing pots of palm-wine, the first few to aid in the cooking. Meanwhile, the bride prepares herself with the help of her mother and friends. As the sun sets, someone sweeps the ground in front of the bride's father's obi. Then the friends and relatives begin to arrive and form a semi-circle. The in-laws begin to arrive bringing many pots of palm-wine. They form another half-circle.

The bride's father presents kola nuts to his inlaws. There is a ritualistic toast between the father and the eldest of the in-laws. The kola is eaten and wine starts being drunk. Food is presented later in the evening with huge bowls of foo-foo, pots of soup and yam pottage. Later young men begin singing, praising all of their male elders in turn. The girls excepting the bride come from the inner compound to dance. Then the bride joins them with a cock in her right hand. She presents the cock to the musicians and dances. The festivities and dancing goes on late into the night. As the visitors leave, they pay short visits to prominent men before leaving, whom give them presents before the visitors go.

Nothing happens, so the villagers suspect that they have special powers.

The Villagers expect the missionaries to die within 7 market weeks or 28 days. When the missionaries do not die, the villagers assume that the missionaries possess special powers, and thus gain more recruits.

Most of Nigeria has been modernized several times, with agricultural tribes rare. Nigeria has been integrated into the global society, with increased trade with Africa and the rest of the world.