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    Study Guide: Things Fall Apart (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide: Things Fall Apart (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide: Things Fall Apart (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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    Study Guide: Things Fall Apart (A BookCaps Study Guide)

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    The perfect companion to Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.

    BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.

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    PublisherBookCaps
    Release dateDec 8, 2011
    ISBN9781465790767
    Study Guide: Things Fall Apart (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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      Study Guide - BookCaps

      Chinua Achebe’s

      Things Fall Apart

      By BookCaps Study Guides

      © 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

      Published at SmashWords

      www.bookcaps.com

      Historical Context

      Chinua Achebe was born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe in Ogidi, Nigeria in 1930. Achebe was raised multi-culturally despite the fact that his father was a Protestant missionary because the village of Ogidi still stayed true to their traditions Igbo culture, despite the introduction of other cultures and religions into their society.

      While receiving a higher education at Government College and University College, Achebe studied theology and history, developing a large respect for and interest in the indigenous Nigerian people, prompting him to drop his Christian name, Albert, in favor of the shortened version of his Nigerian name, Chinua. Acheba was one of the founders of a Nigerian literary movement in the 1950’s that focused on the culture he grew up in, that of the indigenous people. Achebe’s main goal in his writing, especially in Things Fall Apart, has been to overturn the primitive stereotypes that other authors have placed upon native Africans and to teach the world the truth about the culture.

      Things Fall Apart takes place in the 1890’s and surrounds the colonization of traditional Nigerian culture by the white Nigerian government. The book is written in English yet still maintains the true Igbo culture and its language. Achebe tries hard not to stereotype any cultures, mostly the Igbo culture but also that of the Europeans. He truly made an effort to reflect upon the political struggles and reality of the colonization of Africa by the European people. Achebe spent much of his career working to keep Nigerian culture alive throughout his literature and contribution to Nigerian society, also working to publish other Nigerian writers.

      Plot

      Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo, a brave warrior of the Umuofia clan who has a hard time staying within the expected behaviors of his culture. Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, was a cowardly man who left his people in much debt when he died and Okonkwo feels pressure to get out of his father’s shadow. Okonkwo feels that his own son, Nwoye, is lazy and may follow in Unoka’s footsteps.Okonkwo receives a fifteen year old boy named Ikemefuna from another tribe in a settlement and immediately takes a liking to the boy and raises him as his own, though he shows no emotion.

      Okonkwo beats one of his wives during Peace Week, disturbing his people and causing them to distrust him a bit.  After three years, Okonkwo receives word that Ikemefuna is going to be killed because the Oracle wills it so but the

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