Perspective

Impression of story tellers in novels, How has this influenced my reading.
This gives different perspectives and gives different biases throughout each perspective.
Both heart of darkness and things fall apart tell stories of and critique the nature of European colonization in Africa in the 1800s. Story tellers of each are significantly different although having some similarities between each story. As both story tellers are created differently, a different narrative view also can be seen and thus a separate perspective of European colonization is presented by each text. Heart of darkness presents a story within a story from an unnamed witness to Marlow, telling his experiences in Africa, therefore the narrator is essentially Marlow, this creates a believable story with biases which are unique to the character Marlow, whereas Things fall apart is a third person narrative focused but not limited to the main character Okonkwo as the views and perspectives of other characters are touched upon, revealing the perspective of the umuofia as a tribe contrary to the single perspective seen in Heart of darkness.
The stories HOD and TFA created by author Achebe and Conrad each contain many similarities but may not seem so as story tellers allow the image of each story to be completely different, for example, the first engagement with Europeans by Africans. Both stories contain the death of a white man, although the death of this white man is greatly separate,

``strange men,'' TFA
“like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence” HOD
``among these people, a man is judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father,'' which serve to tell about the Umuofia people. TFA
On the contrary, Heart of Darkness condemns colonialism,
``our inborn strength. Principles won't do.'' This ``inborn strength'' is restraint - The restraint that the natives on the steamboat
Marlow as not caring about black individuals, or treating them as ``savages''
When Marlow states that the prisoners ``passed [him] with that complete, death-like indifference of unhappy savages,''
Another way that Conrad condemns colonialism is with his treatment of Europe's past. On several occasions, Marlow refers to europe as having been a ``dark place.'', most notably when he say ``And this also ... has been one of the dark places of the earth.''
Heart of Darkness uses lightness and darkness, but lightness actually refers to blacks and darkness refers to whites.
Things fall apart takes an entirely different attitude; Achebe hardly uses race at all. Achebe describes generalizations made on both sides, such as when Mr. that Achebe does not address race much in Things Fall
Apart is that the book's purpose - to show that African culture was valuable
``it would be too dark, too dark altogether,''
“violent babble of uncouth sounds”
" Fine fellows - cannibals - in their place"
“pilgrim…glorious slaughter of them in the bush… positively danced”