The Igbo have some really fascinating and interesting festivals and holidays in their culture. They celebrate for weeks at a time during the festivals and holidays. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, there are different holidays throughout the novel and there are some festivals as well. There is the Yam Festival and … Read more
Cultural collision is the colliding of two or more very distinct cultures. It causes tension between the two groups; exhibited in Purple Hibiscus and Things Fall Apart. Kambili is the main character in Purple Hibiscus, she demonstrates cultural collision between her and her father. The cultural collision is not strictly between her father and her, … Read more
Attention Getter: The Ibo culture is a old practice that the people in Southern Nigeria still practice today It’s the second biggest old practices in the world. Transitional Sentence: They have many different customs, traditions and beliefs. Slope:Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is about a leader named Okonkwo, Okonkwo is a wealthy and well … Read more
When studying African history, it is important to realize that the information produced by the analysis is dependent on the lens the scholar is viewing Africa through. When studying African societies through structural functionalists such as Evans Pritchard, we tend to see African societies as unchanged ethnic groups whose lives are controlled by the dominating … Read more
Achebe and Fanon talk about colonial authority and colonial violence on colonial subjects. The authors feel violence is the only way to preserve sense of identity. For each book I will talk about three examples of how the books show negative effects of colonial authority and three examples of how they show violence is necessary … Read more
“Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputation is what people think you are” (John Wooden). The quote is about when people become too obsessed with their images, they would actually lose their true characters. In Things Fall Apart, the author Chinua Achebe implies this message throughout … Read more
An anti-hero is a central character in a story who lacks conventional heroic attributes, has flaws and ultimate fortune traditionally assigned to villains but has enough heroic qualities to gain the sympathy of the readers. In the book things fall apart Okonkwo is the protagonist who leads his village called Umofia. He does anything to … Read more