The novel Things Fall Apart was published in 1958. ... Achebe's most acclaimed literary work, Things Fall Apart, yields a tremendous amount of information regarding African culture before and during Africa's European colonization. Things Fall Apart follows three eras in African history that focus on the book's central theme: pre-colonial Africa, European colonization, and post-colonial Africa. The following essay examines Things Fall Apart while paying attention to the societal disorder caused by the clash of African and European value systems. ... It is at this point "thin...

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• Grade Level: High School

As Chinua Achebe points out in his book, Things Fall Apart, though there is the aspiration to lend a hand, it can sometimes becomes deadly, and even fatal to the lives of people. ... They assist in, " [building] a trading store and for the first time palm-oil and kernel became things of great price, and much money flowed into Umuofia" (146). ... Slowly, with that influence, they win many of the tribe's brothers, "and [their] clan can no longer act like one. " (145) Anarchy reigns, when the two clans are torn apart with the superior white man's religion overcoming traditional beliefs....

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• Grade Level: High School

Analysis of Scenes Camera angles, shots, and lighting In the creation of our script, we included various angle shots to work with for the scenes we were creating. However, during the actual creation of the movie, we found that different angle shots were more effective than those of the ones that we intended to use. The shots that we had of Okonkwo, the main character, we concentrated on low angles and close-ups. We thought that these angles would be effective in portraying the large, powerful man that he played. During one of the scenes, we had over the shoulder shots of the characte...

• Word Count: 418
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• Grade Level: High School