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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart. Presenters: Hilary Deuser, Shelby Ritchie, and Sam Watkins. Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. November 16, 1930: Born in Ogidi, Nigeria to Isaiah Okafo and Janet N. Achebe. September 10, 1961: Married Christie Chinwe Okoli. Four children Parents were devout Protestants.

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Things Fall Apart

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  1. Things Fall Apart Presenters: Hilary Deuser, Shelby Ritchie, and Sam Watkins

  2. Albert Chinualumogu Achebe • November 16, 1930: Born in Ogidi, Nigeria to Isaiah Okafo and Janet N. Achebe. • September 10, 1961: Married Christie Chinwe Okoli. • Four children • Parents were devout Protestants. • Christened him after Prince Albert. • Paralyzed from waist down in 1990.

  3. Achebe • Attended Government College • Founder of new literature. • The finest of the Nigerian novelists. • Among the best novelists now writing in the English language. • Able to avoid imitating the trends in English literature.

  4. Achebe • Believes any good story should have a message. • Feel for African context influence him. • First Nigerian writer to successfully transmute the conventions of the novel into African literature.

  5. Ibo Background • SE Nigeria • 1900-Protectorate of Southern Nigeria • Independence from Britain – 1960 • Republic of Biafra – 1967 • Civil War – thousands killed

  6. Language Niger-Congo Kwa Holidays Family Life Food Employment Ibo Culture

  7. Laws and trials Rituals Marriage Food Leadership Social status Impact of the Europeans

  8. Beliefs • Chukwu • Chi • Minor Gods • Mmo and Egwugwu

  9. Beliefs • Titles • Marriage • Uri • Isa-ifi • Religion

  10. Okonkwo • Leader • Fear of weakness • Tragic hero • “manly” vs. “unmanly”

  11. Themes • Masculinity • Fate and Freewill • Tribal belief • Fear • Social Disintegration • Struggle between change and tradition

  12. Role of Women • Perceived as weak lesser people. • Sadly oppressed with no power. • Terribly mistreated and beaten. • No respect outside of role as mother or wife. • Played an inferior role in society. • Priestess

  13. Title • “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats • Chaos brought by European/Christian invasion • Change

  14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT3mxK-oVgU Title “Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.”

  15. Commentary • Why is it important? • World is changing • Learn to adapt • Need to adapt to survive • What makes it good literature? • Style-tragedy • Subject • How successful was Achebe in breaking the stereotype? • Gave African Americans a voice

  16. Works Cited • “Background on the Ibo (historically Igbo) Culture.”4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.monge.net/thingsfallapart/Igbo%20Background.html>. • “Chinua Achebe (1930).”2002.4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/achebe.htm>. • “Chinua Achebe’s Biography and Style.”4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/post/achebe/achebebio.html>. • Hiatt, Kimberly.”The Role of Women in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.”5 June 2006.4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.assaciatedcontent.com/article/35752/the_role_of_women_in_chinua_acheb es.html?cat=4>. • “Igbo.”World Cultures.2008.4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Mauritania-to- Nigeria/Igbo.html>. • Lystad, Robert A.“Ibo.”Encyclpedia Americana.2001. • “Major Themes.”GradeSaver.2008.5 Nov. 2008.<http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/things/themes.html>. • Papers on Things Fall Apart and European Influence and similar term paper topics.”AcaDemon.7 Nov. 2008.<http://www.academon.com/lib/paper/100780.html>. • “Things Fall Apart.”Sparknotes.2008.4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/canalysis.html>. • “Things Fall Apart.”Sparknotes.2008.4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/themes.html>. • “Title: Things Fall Apart.”2008.4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.cheathouse.com/essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=68927>. • “What is the Origin of the Term Things Fall Apart?”WiseGeek.2008.4 Nov. 2008.<http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-things-fall-apart.html>.

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