One of the most dynamic characters in the story was a man by the name of Okonkwo. ... One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness" (13). ... "He heard the blow...My father they have killed me!...... His fear does not allow him to be anything that would suggest that he is becoming anything like his father. ... "He carried a strong stick, and he (messenger) hit each man a few blows on the head and back. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the most dynamic characters in the story was a man by the name of Okonkwo. ... One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness" (13). ... "He heard the blow...My father they have killed me!...... His fear does not allow him to be anything that would suggest that he is becoming anything like his father. ... "He carried a strong stick, and he (messenger) hit each man a few blows on the head and back. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Each character shares a piece of what really make things fall apart. ... Yet they can't do or they choose not to do anything about it. ... These things can still change if the women are ready to face such changes, and if they are strong enough to make that change. ... They change many things and many lives in Umuofia. ... What really transpires in their village is something they all do not expect. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This main character in Chinua Achebes" novel, Things Fall Apart, lives his life on a stage. ... If Okonkwo did not do it himself then it was not done right and most of all, it was not done at the right pace. ... This determination carries with it a hidden fear of failure. ... He does not stop to find out what really happened but acts irrationally. ... (Pg. 204) Later in the novel when the District Commissioner arrives we find the end of the Okonkwo, " they came to the tree from which Okonkwo's body dangled- (pg. 207) He could not live with the fact that his clan experienced changes and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He resists the new ways at first, trying to carry on the old traditions, but then realizes his efforts arehave been futile. ... In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe demonstrates the destructiveness of cultural collision by showing Okonkwo's loss of identity as a respected man in Igbo society and his response to the changes in his clan. ... However, when the Westerners introduced their values into Ibo society, and the Ibo values began to changethe Igbo people do not seem to care about these successes as much. ... But because of the introduction of Western cultural values, the Ibo people ha...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It mirrors in many ways the themes of another internationally acclaimed novel "Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. ... Just as Deloria does, Achebe paints the people with great respect and dignity. ... And why were they? ... The concept of "kinship appeal, " for example, can help people view life differently and change their behavior. ... This necessarily is extremely difficult for them; 5) Acceptance (". . . they accept what their elder kinsman said because they saw that it was right! ...

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He claims that it was the British that brought "education" to the Africans, not that, according to him, it does "them" any good because they are "corrupt through and through." ... However, "the Nigeria he returned to was in many ways different from the picture he had carried in his mind during those four years." ... It is apparent that they are different and although it will also become apparent that they do have love for each other, this beginning quarrel is a sign of problems to come, problems that will unfold as the novel unfolds. ... Clara and Obi do not have a successful meeting. ... But...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School