Things_Fall_Apart

Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a reaction against Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe wants to give his readers a better understanding of the African cultures. He conveys his message by giving a voice to the underrepresented and exploited Africans during colonization. Achebe gives the Africans a voice through a narrator. The narration is in third person. The narrator is a none present figure that switches from narration of one character to another. By this type of story telling, Achebe achieves relaying details of thought and motives of individuals which bring the reader into the world of the Ibo. Achebe first brings us in the world of the Ibo with the murder of a clanswoman in the marketplace by a local tribe. The elders of the Ibo tribe get together and confront the accused tribe and bargain that they must release one virgin and a young boy. The story also opens with Okonkwo, the main character, defeating Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling match. Within the first two chapters of the novel, Achebe shows that the Ibo has laws, an economy, government, things, fall, apart, ibo, achebe, tribe, readers, story, africans, world, stone, shows, reader, district, commissioner, book, within, voice, understanding, two, society, search, paragraph, one, okonkwo, narrator, narration, must, iyi-uwa, first, feel, entire, connected, colonists, character, brings