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This 5 page paper discusses the synopsis of Things Fall Apart by C. Achebe in view of its historical accuracy. Examples are given from noted experts, quotes and cited examples given from Achebe's text. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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to others came back to him three-fold as he was pulled up from the roots and cast onto the compost pile, fodder for the new culture and new way of
life which included a redefinition of right and wrong, weak and strong in early colonial Africa. This makes for a great story, but is it historically accurate? Were the attitudes
depicted in Achebes story indicative of the mindset of that day and age? This story is told by Okonowo and the women
who lived with him and suffered with him throughout his pathetic and desperate attempt for power. In the end, he died by taking his own life which was viewed as
the ultimate act of weakness. They would repeat the tale of the animals and the plants and recall how "Okonkwos fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan" (Achebe
3), and he "drank palm wine from morning till night and his eyes were red and fierce like the eyes of a rat when it was caught by the tail
and dashed against the floor" (Achebe 44). "He felt like a drunken giant walking with the limbs of a mosquito" (Achebe 44). "Okonkwo felt as if he had been cast
out of his clan like a fish onto a dry sandy beach, panting" (Achebe 92). In other words, the women would reiterate what the proverbs had been trying to teach,
but Okonkwo would not learn: do not tempt fate, and in a larger sense to do to others what one would have done to oneself.
From Okonkwos point of view, things, his way of life, did fall apart, but for the women, things did indeed fall open. The final chapter of this
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