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Blog #19 – things fall apart: main events


The most important moments of the play are as follows:

1.       The description of Okonkwo’s Dad unoka & defeating the cat. This establishes his history and context of the story and especially diving into the scene of the battle with the Cat immediately creates enough tension to engage the reader to continue the novel. The immediate action links to a harsh and barbaric theme as well the character is established since we quickly learn what Okonkwo is capable of accomplishing.

  1. War was about to break out and Imkanufiuna was given to avoid the war and Okonkwo has given him a son, though he later personally killed the boy.  The significance of this is that shows the values of the Igbo culture, that we need to give people as a peace offering in order to avoid war. In terms of literary value, it links to the context of the story in an underdeveloped society when compared to the modern world where the barter system was still the method of exchanging value. Secondly conflict, we are introduced to war politics between two tribes and some effort to resolve finally suggests that the context they live in has some level of civil order.



3.       The arrival of the White Missionaries ‘Mr. Brown’ as well as the leading list of successors influenced the Igbo culture and began to mix and change their values with white ideals that were forced on the due to the colonization of Nigeria. This shows a sad theme of inequality where the people are not treated equally with the rise of the slave trade and they took the people’s gaze away from the church and into more capitalist views. That is the link to the changing development of the story’s theme.

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