Today is day 18 9/26 How did you feel when Okonkwo died? Is this how you expected the novel to end?
Why did Okonkwo commit suicide? Do you see any validity in his decision to end his life, or do you think this was a foolish mistake?
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Achebe became familiar with the Western literary tradition when he was a student at University College in Ibadan, where he read such colonialist works on Africa as Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. He felt that books such as these fail to present the true story of the African people. This observation prompted him to write Things Fall Apart, an attempt to “re-story” people who were dispossessed by imperialist powers. He borrowed the Western literary form of the novel but incorporated Nigerian proverbs, stories, philosophy, religious belief, customs, and vocabulary to make it a truer picture of his people.
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