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Summary: Things really do fall apart
Review: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a glimpse into the culture of the Ibo tribe of Nigeria and a look at what happens when Christian missionaries come to town. Achebe does a wonderful job of making the reader step out of his own shoes and sympatize with the clan, even though their customs seem strange or even savage to people of western culture. Were they better off on their own, being ignorant to the rest of the world, or did the missionaries actually help them? You be the judge.
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Summary: You may re-evaluate everything you believe in.
Review: Things Fall Apart was a great book that teaches a lesson in sensitivity and open mindedness. Throughout the book the author challenges your threshold for differences in cultural practices and their justifications. The author finally, and intelligently, provides the reader with all the sides of a good story and slaps you with a hefty dose of reality.
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Summary: Looking through the eyes of the strong
Review: Things Fall Apart gives a great out look on how we as today view our world. From the views of Chinua your able to see the darker side of our world. Our beliefs in our culture should be looked at then asked. Have we made all of the correct human decissions as to how we live today with religon. I admire how strong the tribe keep their cultures intact. In the end some tribe memebers did convert over,however, this would allow some diversity. This is a good thing, reason being that it gave the tribes more of a challenge to be different yet still the same.
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Summary: Things Really Do Fall Apart
Review: Chinua Achebe does an excellent job in accomplishing his goal. He lets his readers know how at any time or place, things can never stay the same forever. Someone or something will always come to interfere and perhaps destroy what has been created through years of work. That's life unfortunately and Chinua is very aware of this. Chinua does a superb job in helping his readers understand the culture with the names he uses and his detailed explanantions of the rituals. The outcome is unexpected but its what compliments the title, which I enjoyed mostly because it's so strong and meaningful.
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Summary: The Values that you hold Supreme....
Review: Chinua Achebe book expressed the trials of a culture trying to survive under new and adverse conditions. The Christians who infiltrated their lives and culture came under the guise that they would bring something better. What they did was impose their beliefs as the Supreme, the one and only. These conditions really affected some and others were able to adapt without any problems.
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Summary: When Things Fall Apart
Review: Chinua Achebe was the epitome of "the storyteller" in this powerful novel! While communicating the very true story of the infiltration of christians and their beliefs into a peaceful and established African culture, he was able to give fictitious characters a powerful life that seeped from the words on the pages and into the hearts and minds of the reader! cheryl (student)Montclair State University
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Summary: Storytelling by Achebe
Review: Chinua Achebe uses his storytelling technique as a great way to explain the culture and society surrounding it. His choice for using the English language instead of the traditional language that would have been found within the culture at that time, is a wise yet disappointing choice. In order for the general reader to understand the basic situations that where happening within that culture, the choice of using regular English was appropriate. I think by using the language of the culture, all understanding of actual events would have been lost and overpowered. Achebe's novel also broke down the basic understanding of the culture itself, by using the storytelling techniques that he so enjoys, he is explaining to the reader the simplicity that that the society has for their culture. Everthing is broken down into simplicist forms and can be explained by a story. I think Achebe's novel gives insight to a culture that most people have forgotten even exists.
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Summary: A True Look at Africa...
Review: An easy read, but hard to comprehend. This is a story of another world, with different values and morals which are not easy to grasp. I would only recommend this book to someone who is willing to invest time in it.
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Summary: Things Fall Apart
Review: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was definately a powerful book, showing how the "white man" came in and attempted to change things. When this attempt was made, Things Fell Apart. He incorporated the spiritual and personal beliefs in such a way that yuou feel compelled to look further into it. The Mystical powers that presided over the many characters gave you insight to what what the beliefs were and what was going on in the minds. The main character, Onkonkwo, portrayed many sides. The strog man, powerful and fearless who had a hidden soft side but was too ashamed to show it. All in all, a great book. Gives a wonderful view of colonialism customs and beliefs.
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Summary: A Well Written Article by an Extremely Intelligent Man
Review: I enjoyed this book a great deal. This book was a lot easier to understand than the previous book I had to read. I was also able to relate to this story personally and that is something that I always treasure in a book. The language was a lot easier to understand and the things that might not have been understood were explained.
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