Reason for Okonokwa's downfall in Things Fall Apart The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe has long been seen as a response to Christian colonial literature, which presents the African as a barbaric dark image. It is therefore ponder some that Achebe would choose to shed light on Africa by deconstructing and ultimately destroying his main character Okonokwa. Through examining Okonokwa and his character flaws and essentially the reasons for his downfall one may surmise that shedding light on the African plight was not Achebe's some message in this novel. ... Clearly, Thin...

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Societal Impacts on Emotional Stability in Literature Change is one of the hardest things that human beings have to suffer through, because with change comes anxieties, uneasiness, and the disappearance of a comfort zone that one has become accustomed to. ... 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. ...

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