Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) in Overdue Podcast

Sep 02, 2019 Jason rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own

“There is no story that is not true, [...] the world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”

The powerful story of a self-made Ibo "strong-man", Okonkwo; a man who lives by his clans conventional laws and rituals. Okonkowo, through his own self-determination and hard work rises in rank, but then suffers at the hands of the very same tribal traditions he upholds. In this transitional time for his people we see the immovable strength of this man inevitably come ...more

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Feb 09, 2015 tysephine rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, classics

I've been debating whether this should be 3 or 4 stars, because the first part was more 3 stars but the latter part was more 4 stars. The beginning starts off rough, and I did not really understand where Achebe was going with his story, but once the white men entered the picture (uh, spoilers for colonialism I guess) I understood the contrast between the 2 cultures much better. I now have an appreciation of what Achebe was doing - setting up the native culture before showing the changes and ulti ...more

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Mar 16, 2016 Jaime Leigh rated it really liked it

4 1/2 stars.
I enjoyed this book a lot though I don't think that I could have predicted where the third part of the story was going. I think that it is very important that high schoolers read this book because of the way that it portrays Christianity. It was nice to see the story from the perspective of a tribe, which made the Christian missionaries and their customs look foreign, even though the tribal rituals and customs were more foreign to me (and most likely most readers). The book itself i ...more

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