Rating: Summary: A truly Excellent Book. Highly reccommended Review: My High School freshman English class had to read Things Fall Apart, and I really loved it. All of it was very good, with some very good life lessons and morals.
Rating: Summary: A book of parables Review: The book uses oral history and parables to illustrate the many facets of humanity. I think too many readers focus in on the literal and don't understand that the author is really giving us a story of life in all its wonderful, silly, humane and tragic episodes.
Rating: Summary: Things Fall Apart Review: Things Fall Apart is about a man named Okonko, who is struggling to cope with the changes in his society. This is the story of a man during the begining of British colonization of Africa. The British come to Nigeria and begin to disrupt the age-old patterns of African village, culture. Although the British are dominating towards the small Nigeria village, they cultivate Western civilization. Okonko is a character depicted as a greatest man. However, he is an angry, inflexible man. Okonko allowed fear to rule his life and this eventually lead to his sad demise. This book was very interesting and formative it expressed the tradition and long held beliefs of African culture, but also reflected the differences of Western culture.
Rating: Summary: Achebe takes the reader away. Review: This book has a unique quality about it that is not found in many others. It flows very well and I truly enjoyed every reference to tribal culture and customs that were made. Achebe is able to make the reader understand why certain customs come about and how they are not any more absurd than any Judeo-Christian ones that we are so familiar with. Although Okonkwo is not necessarily a character that people will fall in love with, he is definitely one that anyone can identify with in some way, and his story is very moving. Overall I thouroughly enjoyed this book and I would recomend it to anyone looking for a light, quick, read with an entertaining and thought provoking plot.
Rating: Summary: Taught me a lesson Review: I had to read this book for my 11th grade english class. This is not the book I wanted to read but when I actually got it I was pretty excited. Most of the time when I read a book and it changes me I can't pinpoint why. But this book changed me because it taught me a lesson. The 'hero' Okonkwo was a man ruled by fear, and this caused his life to end in disaster and suicide. The use of dramatic irony taught me that having your life ruled by anything will cause only bad in the end.
Rating: Summary: An Artistic Masterpiece Review: I particularly enjoyed this book because it expresses the tradition and long held beliefs of African culture with an enthralling plot! I can't wait to get "No Longer at Ease" and "Anthills of the Savanah" for Christmas.
Rating: Summary: Great read, but requires patience and insight Review: I read this book for my high school English literature exam. At first I found the use of native words mixed with English rather perplexing (which is a bit odd considering I grew up in E. Africa). On the 2nd and subsequent reads, the tragedy of this 'hero' unfolds. Okonkwo's fateful woes work against what would have been a great man's destiny. He allows fear to rule his life and this eventually leads to his sad demise.
Rating: Summary: Dragged on took forever to get through! Review: This book bored me out of my mind! of course when i read i cant stop in the middle of the book but i absolutly disliked the whole book but this is just my personal opinon i'm an odd one n e wayz!
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Rating: Summary: Things fall apart indeed Review: This story moved me. Without judging anyone (and there are few characters in this book one would judge sympathetically) this tells the story of a man before and during the beginning of British colonization. My major disappointment is that although the story and characters are compelling, the writing is dismal. If you would like to read novels set in Nigeria which have really good writing, try Ben Okri's Famished Road. In short, this won't be the most exciting read of your day, but it is certainly enlightening and moving --- but far from uplifting.
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