uncertainty sometimes with feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an alien culture of environment without adequate preparation. Cultural shock is experienced by many different people across the world everyday. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ the main character‚ Okonkwo‚ experiences cultural shock. Things Fall Apart focuses on the culture in Nigeria of the Ufomia tribe‚ the Igbo culture. Okonkwo‚ the main character‚ is a high-ranked leader of the tribe and strongly believes in the
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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 during it they pray to a goddess and they ask for a good harvest. They also have the Week of Peace and during that week they aren’t allowed to hurt anybody or you will be punished. There are many activities and things to do as a community during the Yam Festival and during the Week of Peace. Throughout the novel‚ Achebe talks about the festivals
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about who is at fault and what truly caused the conflict. If you were to analyze every conflict you would realize they all lead back to assumptions made by both sides. In love is a private Affair‚ the father and son get into an argument that is built from assumptions made by both parties. In Love is a Private Affair‚ the son Nnaemeka is going against tradition and chose to marry a girl his family did not pick for him. Nnaemeka tells his father about his engagement to Nene‚ after his father picked
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‘Things Fall Apart’‚ a novel by Chinua Achebe‚ has achieved textual integrity through a set of core ideas which are developed through the characters and events in the novel. The novel shows the drastic effect of white missionaries who colonise an African clan of Ibo people; bringing with them a new religion as well as laws‚ punishments and very different customs. Events described in the narrative highlight that a community and or an individual must at some point adapt to change and a new environment
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"Marriage Is A Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe is told in the third person point of view. It takes place somewhere in Nigeria. There are 3 main characters in this story and about 10 in all‚ however they are merely mentioned. Nene Atang is the woman that Nnaemeka chose to marry. She’s from Calabar‚ she’s a good housewife‚ a teacher in an all female school and she has a good Christian background. She is engaged to Nnaemeka when the story begins. Nnaemeka is the son of a man who is a member of the
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Traditional Religions. Those five central tenets are belief in a supreme being‚ belief in spirits/divinities‚ belief in life after death‚ religious personnel and sacred places and witchcraft and magic practices. In his novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe provides illustrations of each of these tenets. Okonkwo’s interactions with various other characters in the novel are indicative of the belief in these five central tenets that are found in most African Traditional Relgions. It’s interesting to
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True and advanced works of Chinua Achebe‚ Refugee Mother and Child is a beautiful poem. Chinua Achebe was born in the 1930s in Ogidi‚ Nigeria. Chinua wrote this poem after getting inspired by the citizens of the countries which were going through war. He illustrates the difficulties and suffering they had to go through. The poem is organized into two stanzas each with different lengths. The lines are more or less the same size. The lines are explained clearly and are easy to understand with simple
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Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? ! Things Fall Apart by the Nigerian author‚ Chinua Achebe‚ perfectly illustrates the collapse of the Igbo society and people during the british colonization of Nigeria in the early twentieth century. The author’s motif‚ the proper telling of the confound and inaccurate portrayal of the africans during the racist colonial era‚ was perfectly executed‚ presenting idyllic and faithful elements of the Igbo
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Kaitlyn Benage Chinua Achebe The book things fall apart successfully expresses how Chinua Achebe had succeeded in writing a different story. It pointed out the conflict of one’s self‚ the traditional beliefs‚ and the religious matters of the Africans. Throughout the book Chinua Achebe used simple words and unlike other books he also included some flash backs to make the book more interesting. Things fall apart was about a man named Okonkwo‚ who was always struggling with his inner fear although
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(especially since Achebe doesn’t fail to pay a tribute to Salman Rushdie’s essay of the same name published in 1982). Because that is what the running theme here is - a reclamation of a land and a culture that was wrested away with brutal force and made a part of an ’Empire’ which still insists on viewing that period as one of glory and not characterized by the most despicable human rights violation ever and a heralding of the arrival of the African voice in the world literary scene. Achebe is slowly
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