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Get all the key plot points of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.
Dec 27, 2019 · Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe’s classic 1958 novel of Africa just before colonialism, tells the story of a world about to undergo a radical change. Through the character of Okonkwo, a man of prominence and stature in his village community, Achebe depicts how issues of masculinity and agriculture interact with each other and affect the world of the novel.
His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958) was considered his magnum opus, and is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in South-Eastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies.
In ‘Things Fall Apart,’ Achebe offers an account of precolonial Africans that indisputably asserts their humanity and sophistication in the face of uncomplimentary portrayals from racist and prejudiced writers. ‘Things Fall Apart’ captures the effect of the modernizing and disruptive forces of British colonialism upon Africans.
The novel's title is a quote from a poem by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats called "The Second Coming": "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Much of the novel centers on Umuofia traditions of marriage, burial, and harvest.
Introduction to Things Fall Apart. Things Fall Apart is Chinua Achebe’s acclaimed masterpiece. It narrates life in Nigeria at the turn of the 20th century during the rise of the colonial era. It was first published in 1958 and immediately became one of the favorite books to the readers.
