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Summary: Thank God For Missionaries
Review: An interesting look into tribal life. From what I learned here, I feel that for once, the missionaries were on the mark in trying to elevate this hopeless crew of superstitious, murderous, misogynists. Good riddance to their culture. (not that ours is much better of course).
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Summary: Okonkwo the Custodian of African Religion
Review: Okonkwo in Things fall Apart represented the struggle of Black Race. He more than any one fought against the incurssion of white race into Africa in his village . This book is more than a fiction. It is a must to all Black race and particularly to African Americans who were misled to believe that they were sold slavery by their African Brothers.Okonkwo did what in true life others like King Pepple of Bonny, Jaja Of Opobo and Overaime of Benin all in present day Nigeria did and lost their lives in their struggle against the white man's incusion into Africa. Things Fall Apart remains the best novel from Africa. I have read this book more than 15 times yet I keep learning something new each time. Just as other books are being used in Schools in America Things fall Apart should be used to assist African Americans in their search for proper identity in America. Thank you Chinua Achebe for a job well done.
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Summary: GOOD
Review: This book showed irony through many examples. How Chinua displayed it was wonderful. White people came to African villages thinking of a "primitive culture" but yet they are very much alike to the white people. They had marital problems self conflict and everything a human exibits. This book was very good.
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Summary: Interesting, but So What?
Review: The book is well written, and it presents a very good view of life of tribal Africa (given the fact that I know nothing of the subject) and the inevitable tragedies that result from the combination of culture clashes and ignorance. However, I don't get the point - I don't feel like I gained anything from the book except a view on African tribal life. In addition, the story is little different from the clash of westerners and Native Americans - same stories, different continent.
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Summary: A good sick-in-your-bed book
Review: I'm not going to write a lengthy reveiw, but the morals and examples this book teaches are very good for a person to read. It is a robust tale of how a community can be unhinged by the interfearance of missionaries. I has a lot of good moral value. You should read it.
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Summary: I read it and am doing a 40-page report on it!
Review: I just read it for the class, and I thought it had some good points, but the story wasn't that amazing. I understand all the points of it, because I have to analyze it so much and write this huge report from many different angles: review the book, write Achebe's life story, write Nigerian history story, etc. I believe, the main point of the novel is explained in the title: "Things Fall Apart", where Okonkwo was famous, strong, and wealthy (he had 3 wives!), but by the end, he becomes just a regular, even lower than that. I've read better books, but since I had to do it for the class, it wasn't that bad. By the way, we're relating this to "Oedipus The King" by Sophocles, in a way of ancient Greek tragic heroes, and how Okonkwo compares to Oedipus. Another book you can relate to is "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, where Gregor sacrifices himself for others for truly no reason whatsover (Kafka was actually explaining the sacrifice to God metaphorically). Those are the books that we deeply analyzed this semester, and now it all comes together in this report. My teacher -- Mrs. Richter at MEHS.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: A must-read for any history student studying the clash of cultures. Also a quick, interesting book for the casual reader. If you look beyond plot and study the theme, there are some similarities to the movie "Passage to India." While the movie's Dr. Aziz and the book's Okonkwo are vastly different, both works deal with the effects of the meeting between native values and English colonialism.
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Summary: worst book that i have ever read
Review: this is the worst book that i have ever read! the story have no point at all.
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Summary: The point has been made before- and better
Review: Achebe should be lauded for finishing a book, as should anyone- the writing of a book is a daunting task. As far as content goes, however, Things Fall Apart leaves much to be desired. It very well may be that critics compare Achebe's masterpiece to the great Greek epics, but the distinguishing scholar would hardly equate them with Things Fall Apart. The Iliad and The Odyssey are eloquent and powerful, while Things Fall Apart is contrived and lacks any lasting impact. You will notice that the majority of reviews rating Things Fall Apart as 4 or 5 stars are written by high school students; one has to wonder about their credentials. There is a disturbing trend in the academic world to praise the virtues of a particular work simply because it is "black" or "gay" or "alternative" in some way. Do great works have universal applications, or are they simply limited in relevance to one social group? A truly great work is not concerned with outward appearences, it is concerned with Truth. And Truth, unlike Things Fall Apart, knows that color is irrelevant.
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Summary: stupid
Review: i had to read this for a lit class...the writer is only famous because he is a minority. The babar books are better written than this. If you want to immitate hemmingway, at least TRY and do it withought sounding like a 3rd grader.
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