Things Fall Apart To be a man in the Ibo culture of Africa in the 1800s meant to live with honor above all. ... In the novel Things Fall Apart, like many cultures during the 1800's, European or African, the African Ibo tribe placed religion as a form of both a source of spiritual devotion and a law establishing committee. ... The European missionaries came to the African villages, including and surrounding the Ibo tribe, after they had set up base in Umuru on the bank of the Great River. ... Sacraficing sheep to the gods or holding sacred dances in which elite members would dance in...

• Word Count: 2116
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Things Fall Apart To be a man in the Ibo culture of Africa in the 1800s meant to live with honor above all. ... In the novel Things Fall Apart, like many cultures during the 1800's, European or African, the African Ibo tribe placed religion as a form of both a source of spiritual devotion and a law establishing committee. ... The European missionaries came to the African villages, including and surrounding the Ibo tribe, after they had set up base in Umuru on the bank of the Great River. ... Sacraficing sheep to the gods or holding sacred dances in which elite members would dance in m...

• Word Count: 2116
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"She is like a child the grownups have been admiring but now that have got bored with her, they have turned away and started talking and forgotten her, and no matter how she dances, and smiles and poses and shouts, Look at me! ... In Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo struggles with the distinction between these two views of society, along with the cultural changes that were happening in his village as the whites moved in to Christianize and colonize Africa. ...

• Word Count: 2771
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate