Things Fall Apart
“Things Fall Apart” is a novel that contradicts many of the white western stereotypical views of the native African people. The author Chinua Achebe wrote the novel to show that the African natives where not the savage, uneducated and primitive people that they had been portrayed as by the bias white man. There is know better example of this than the novel and movie “Heart of Darkness”, which portrays the natives as evil, ruthless and stupid and this could not be further from the truth, as Achebe’s hole purpose for the novel, was to raise awareness to the ignorant white man. The native African people had one of the most complex and ridged social structures in the world at the time of colonisation. Through the white mans arrogance they where not able to see this or just simply did not want to anyway. Achebe uses characters like Okonkwo “main character of the novel and tragic hero” in his novel to illustrate the African people’s values and attitudes towards change to the invading white culture. Achebe focuses on the native tribe of people called the Ibo, who live in Nigeria to get his views across to the reader. In this tribe there lives the books main character Okonkwo, a well-
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Approximate Word count = 1402
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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