In both novels the decline of the native culture is traced through the downfall of an individual, Okonkwo, in the first novel, and his grandson Obi, in the second. ... Native people of colonised regions were generally regarded as savage heathens by missionaries, but it is evident from Things Fall Apart that complex set of belief were in existence. ... One of these is Okonkwo's son, Nwoye: The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul - the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question o...

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Because France was at war with Germany, and she, a French native, was in love with a German soldier, it was socially unacceptable to be in love with the enemy, just as it was socially unacceptable for her to be in love with a Japanese man after the bombing of Hiroshima. ...

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