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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: You suddenly become Ibo!
Review: Chinua invites the reader to explore this South African society through unbiased eyes. He depicts an unforgiving yet reverent culture. He illustrates how a society can change with one weak link and how things CAN ...fall apart. You become Ibo mid-way through the novel!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: pride not fear
Review: achebe writes about his own view on his country no matter what people feel.he didn't care what people thaught of his opion and thats what i admired. from this aspect i enjoyed the book and i know you would to.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Things Fall Apart review
Review: I found this novel to be interesting and engaging. This novel was read for a World Lit. course and we found the concepts of religion and religious dominance polemical and confrontational. An interesting read for anyone who may be curious about African culture.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: from the depths of pre-colonial Africa
Review: First Achebe guides us through a people's traditions and way of life, then depicts how another culture intrudes and attempts to reform these people out of their own impression of what culture should be. Achebe shows us that no one culture can determine what each individual or tribe perceives to be a way of life, and a spirit of a people and the stories that they can tell will transcend all else.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Valuable account of heritage
Review: I found this novel to be a valuable account of Achebe's heritage. The issue of religion and masculine rites of passage are prevelant throughout. Every reader can gain insight and learn a little more about their own heritage and forces that may have impacted that heritage once they close the book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Things REALLY fall apart!
Review: Interesting, powerful, some truly gripping moments. The story seems a bit fragmented, yet still very easy to read. The moral(s) of the story? Lighten up, and nothing good ever lasts forever...AND..NEVER waste the love between a father and his children!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: How history can be altered
Review: This is an okay text. Although I had problems with the words used in the begining, eventually I caught on. The entrance of the missionaries, shows how a little influence can alter what you believe and live by. Although what they were trying to do I believe would have benefited them, many may say that they were stripping them of their heritage.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Things Fall Apart
Review: Dear sir, This is my first review on this book

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Pre-Colonial Society
Review: Things Fall Apart was certainly not like I expected it to be. I read this for a world culture studies class in college and thought that it would be your typical European bashing, anti-Western, intellectually stunted waste of paper that you tend to get from ex-colonial societies.

Achebe shows the influence that Europeans had on tribal life in Africa, but not in a negative way. It certainly isn't a positive description, but he doesn't use the typical leftist trick of debasing all Western influences.

Pre-colonial tribal life in Ibo society is also not portrayed as a blissful existence. Achebe shows the life for what it was: hard, family centered, and tradition bound. Achebe shows the bad with the good. We get a look at the prejudices and taboos that were rampant in Ibo society before the colonial period.

Okonkwo's life in Things Fall Apart is drastically altered, but not by the colonizing Europeans. However, his chance at redemption is taken away by the Christian missionaries. Things Fall Apart in the end shows the ways in which many aspects of these tribal societies were completely changed forever.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An Enjoyable, Easy Read
Review: This book is one of the most important books I've ever read. The plot revolves around the main character, Okonkwo, and allows the reader to enter into his life and the society. It explains various customs such as the value of the ancient ancestors, the praise of the water spirit, and the essential role that yams play in their society. It also narrates how innocently white people entered their village, but ultimately caused "things to fall apart" by acting as a divisive force. I recommend this book to anyone interested in other cultures.


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