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Spark Notes Things Fall Apart
Interesting reading,tells a interwining stories both centered around a strongman of a village in Nigeria, amust read.
86 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2008
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
June 16, 2021
Good companion piece to the novel. I read this to help my son with a paper on the book for his English class. It waa very useful and helpful. I don't think I would be into the actual book though, I don't think it's for me.
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April 15, 2021"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."
this book was so brilliant!! simple yet beautiful prose, a tribe in a village close with one another with ancient myths and gods, witchcraft, what would one not like in this book?
and MOST importantly the history of how colonization was started in Africa.
Okonkwo and his people had survived in the world by power. and the power they gained by being warriors, the white people brainwashed them into not fighting anymore and divided them. and that's what broke the power.
the writing here was so incredibly wise, he didn't tell anything but instead he showed how all of it went down, that made it even more tragic because you could predict the inevitable but there's no way to stop that because the colonized couldn't see it until they could and nothing could be done by then, and that deserves alot of praise in my opinion.
this book was so brilliant!! simple yet beautiful prose, a tribe in a village close with one another with ancient myths and gods, witchcraft, what would one not like in this book?
and MOST importantly the history of how colonization was started in Africa.
Okonkwo and his people had survived in the world by power. and the power they gained by being warriors, the white people brainwashed them into not fighting anymore and divided them. and that's what broke the power.
the writing here was so incredibly wise, he didn't tell anything but instead he showed how all of it went down, that made it even more tragic because you could predict the inevitable but there's no way to stop that because the colonized couldn't see it until they could and nothing could be done by then, and that deserves alot of praise in my opinion.
August 17, 2018
Very helpful!!
November 10, 2019
A great book for understanding African tribal culture & the traditions & superstitions embraced by their people.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews