Things Fall Apart

             In the book Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe is trying to give an explanation of what it is like to live in an African society in the late nineteenth century. The story is about a man named Okonkwo who is a member of the Ibo tribe. Achebe is telling the story of Okonkwo from his childhood till his death. Achebe did a very good job of illustrating a traditional African society. Achebe's goal in writing this book was to educate people about some of the struggles people have. He also wanted to educate people about life in traditional African societies. The title Things Fall Apart is a good choice. Achebe wanted to write the true meaning of how these people lived, not how it was rumored. Still, a writer can't tell a story about someone with out having little contact or taking one perspective and writing about it the entire time. It is very diverse in how the areas of living in this culture can be seen in every day life.
             I believe that Achebe tackles the African writing by interpreting how everyone is so alike, with all their problems, all the troubles, and the way each person lives their lives. The similarities can be counted in bunches to show that the growing up process of this book and the respect that Okonkwo gave to his father and how he wanted to be better than the way that he lived his life. The issues that are brought up in this book are the same as any other group of peoples issues are. These similarities are just to show that the misrepresentations of how some people may believe that the African society is different in complete ways to their own, which just isn't true. The misrepresentations of the world in which these people live in are responded to by, writing books to set certain things straight with the reader or challenger.
             Basically Okonkwo's life fell apart on him; hence I feel that the title Things Fall Apart is very fitting for this book. I thought that Achebe did a good job at writing this book. The pur...

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