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. ... Originally, Okonokwa falls back in the crowd so that he need not actively participate in his son's death; however, when Ikefuma runs toward him saying "Father they've killed me." ...
Santiago Nasar, arguably the victim of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, is a wealthy twenty-one year old man who can afford to wear whatever he likes. ... While reading the beginning of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, it is easy to picture Santiago as an innocent vulnerable dove, one completely unaware of what surrounds him. ... Dona Gloria is known for only wearing her "eternal dark dress and black shawl- after being widowed. The color black shows that she has little hope left in her world after the death of her husband. ... Most characters in Dom Casmurro and Chronicle of a Death Foretold wear ...
Alcott "saw life whole, saw illness and death, sorrow and trouble and poverty as parts of life to be met with normality and courage- (Meigs, 351). To deal with the darker sides of life, Alcott teaches her young readers to develop the spiritual self, similar to the Transcendentalist movement, to which her father was a part of (Showalter, viii). ... Barrie also comments on the ambivalent representations of childhood in the novel, such as this passage concerning Neverland: "Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it w...
He argues and then questions assumptions of patriotic purpose, and his joking could be seen as a protective device and for recognising (his near) death, staving it off briefly by defusing a situation of it's sinister implications, to maintain self preservation. ... This chapter demonstrates how humour is changed to suit the tone of the situation, from light(the argument with the engineer), to dark(the engineer's ironic death), and returning to light humour again(Corelli being dug out of the trench). ... The missing Dunbar who was "disappeared"; the man in white who was supposedly bor...
Throughout the ages, literature has revolved around the personal relationships between people. The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the...
