- SKU:
- 431DWNLD
- Availability:
- Immediately
- Recommended Grade Level:
- 10-12
- Setting:
- Colonial Africa, 1800's
- Study Guide Author:
- Brenda S. Cox
- For the Book By:
- Chinua Achebe
- Study Guide Page Count:
- 103 pages
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Things Fall Apart is one of the first, and finest, books to deal with European expansion into Africa from an African point of view. the author even-handedly explores the introduction of Christianity, recognizing the difference between missionaries truly spreading the gospel and those missionaries only there to spread Western culture. Okonkwo lives with his Ibo clansmen in a Nigerian village in the late 1800's. Driven by fear that he will be considered a failure like his father, he is determined to prove himself stronger, tougher, more violent, and more honorable than anyone else. A fiercely proud and short-tempered man, Okonkwo is nearing the pinnacle of leadership and power he has strived for in his village, only to see everything he worked for fall apart as he clashes with the new European government and religion.
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