Things Fall Apart

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Summary: Things fall apart in an African village when europeans arrv
Review: Achebe's tale of an african village does not fool itself by trying to portray the events in an unbiased fashion. After all, the book is not called "Things Progress." Things literally do fall apart with the sometimes violent, and sometimes subtle introduction of European society into African culture. As an African-American, it makes me wonder. As I turn the pages with disgust and sometimes animosity at the way Christianity was often forced upon the Native Africans, I stop dead in my tracks every time I remember Sunday mornings at Church, or saying grace in Jesus' name before every meal. This book is very thought provoking, whether or not you believe that the European introduction had no positive effects for the life of millions of Africans.

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Summary: A powerful story with compelling characters, simpley written
Review: The prose is simple an unpretensious. The story is very moving, with complex characters and plot elements. What I most appreciate about this novel is that it is so well balanced. It is not a diatribe against English colonialism like it could have been. Achebe doesn't romantacize Ibo life before the English came, nor does he condemn the changes which were wrought after. He objectively descibes the transition of a society when elements of another culture are introduced to it. For some like Okwonkwo the effect is devastating, others such as Okwonko's son welcome the change. He leaves it up to the reader to decide what is good or bad.

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Summary: Colonialism and its tragedy
Review: Nothing more aptly says it about this book than these famous words from the book: THE WHITE MAN CAME PEACEABLY AND WE ACCEPTED HIM FOOLISHLY AND NOW HE HAS TAKEN OUR BROTHERS. OUR CLAN CAN NO LONGER ACT AS ONE. HE HAS PUT A KNIFE TO THE THINGS THAT HELD US TOGETHER AND WE HAVE FALLEN APART.THI IS THE TRAGEDY OF THE BOOK.

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Summary: A Good Culture Study and a Moving Tale
Review: This book recounts the stupid error Europe made in destroying the culture of Africa. It is an excellent, sad, and moving tale of the destruction of African culture by European missionaries. The book is written from the African perspective and the hero often receives treatment similar to that of the hero of Richard Wright's Blackboy. A fine study of the culture and a good depiction of the destruction thereof.

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Summary: The book was well developed and interesting.
Review: I liked the way the author developed Okonkwo. Even though the story was fiction, it still felt that a similar situation could've occured. I also like the way Achebe never told you the time the story took place. The English missionaries could've been from 300 yrs. ago or they could've gone to Africa 2 yrs. ago. Overall the story was good.

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Summary: A poingnant Nigerian tale.
Review: If you have ever wanted to broaden your perspective by considering another culture, Things Fall Apart is your ticket. Achebe draws the reader into a deep understanding of the tribal culture of pre-colonial Nigeria and one can't help but appreciate it's subtlety and nobility. The heroes on both sides of Achebe's struggle are classically flawed, but it makes very compelling reading. It is impossible not to be affected by this book!

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Summary: An impressive book with a bit of zing!!!!
Review: This book is one book that is definitely worth reading. It is highly impressive. Chinua Achebe is able to bring out his own people's point of view and show that we shouldn't think that coloured people should be discriminated against. I hoipe that everyone that reads it is impressed with it. The story I admit only begins to kick in after Chapter 4. The book is so good that Malaysia is using it as an Exam question.

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Summary: I believe this book touched the interesting aspects of cultr
Review: Things Fall Apart is a book about the crises of the main character, Okwondo, and how English colinization influenced his culture. The English came over, established churches for the missionaries, and converted many Ibo to Christianity. Religion was the center of the Ibo, and once that was broken up, the tribe went downward from there.

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Summary: A Book To Learn About Other Cultures
Review: I read this book for a class assignment. I am in high school. It was one of the best book I ever read. I enjoyed reading about other cultures. I learned about how are the marriage set up, eating eggs may be temping for one to steal eggs, the way the culture answer the door and a lot of other things. For part one of the book, it explain about the life of Okonkwo. Things like if a man shows their feeling, that was a sign of weakness. There are not much action in part one, but starting in part two it got a little more action. I was so surprise with the ending of the book. There should be a part two to, "Things Fall Apart".

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Summary: Things fall Apart- an in depth study of African culture
Review: The most appealing quality about Things fall apart is how Achebe cleverly parallels the main plots, the demise of Okonkwo and also of the village, to the extent that they are almost interchangable and so a decline in the traditional way of life accounts a deterioration in Okonkwo and vice versa. Written in response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness, Things fall apart is simply a brilliant novel which leaves the reader with an appreciation of African culture, (which like any other has established festivals, hierachies-based on achievement, gods, customs) regardless of time and place and in doing so disposes of the stereotypical view of African tribes and customs as being backward.