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A review by talitha_k
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
challenging
informative
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Wow, what’ a read.
Okonkwo was enslaved by his own warped sense of masculinity, that he often confused it with brutality.
People often think colonialism was a quick sweep cruelty, but the violence came later. As seen in the book, it starts as a parasitic infection, that slowly erodes the clan from within, shattering the foundations of what made them a people in the first place. Leaving a bed of doubt, in which to sow new seeds.
for a man who claimed to value his tribes customs, he often went against them:
- the iron fist treatment of his wives and children, that lead to him almost kill his wife.
- he killed his friends son, during a sacred time
- he hung himself, to be later buried as a dog.
Despite being a great man, the nature of his demise could be argued to be worse than his father’s. The man he spent his whole life hating.
Okonkwo was enslaved by his own warped sense of masculinity, that he often confused it with brutality.
People often think colonialism was a quick sweep cruelty, but the violence came later. As seen in the book, it starts as a parasitic infection, that slowly erodes the clan from within, shattering the foundations of what made them a people in the first place. Leaving a bed of doubt, in which to sow new seeds.
- the iron fist treatment of his wives and children, that lead to him almost kill his wife.
- he killed his friends son, during a sacred time
- he hung himself, to be later buried as a dog.
Despite being a great man, the nature of his demise could be argued to be worse than his father’s. The man he spent his whole life hating.