The novel is an attack on a perspective held almost universally in the West, and to some extend in Africa, that the pre- colonial era was a time of unsophisticated savagery. ... "The ancient drums of death beat, guns and cannon were fired, and men dashed about in frenzy, cutting down every tree or animal they saw, jumping over walls and dancing on the roof. ... Achebe presents Mother Africa as nurturing, long suffering and forgiving. ... The view of women was one of the many issues that Achebe was writing against, as back then, African women had a very specific image in the colonial imaginatio...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4

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

The novel reflects this degeneration with respect to the traditional African way of life. ... The customs of African culture are scorned and degraded. ... At the funeral of the leader of the tribe Ezeudu, there is much dancing and firing of crackers and guns. ...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Things Fall Apart: Analysis Things Fall Apart: Critical Analysis In Achebe's, Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo emerges as a traditional hero of the Igbo Village. However, his hidden desire to be the antithesis of his unsuccessful, "feminine- father elicits his own volatile, self-dest...

• Word Count: 2677
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

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." ... Green's vocal impressions about Africans, there is also the fact that there are many other Europeans at this bar where Mr. ... They, like the Europeans in Africa, also have servants and stewards. ... When they meet for the first time, Obi steps all over Clara while attempting to dance with her. ... They exist somewhere between the English language and culture and their own African and Nigerian traditions. ...

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

"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