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    Ready Reference Treatise: Things Fall Apart
    Ready Reference Treatise: Things Fall Apart
    Ready Reference Treatise: Things Fall Apart
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    Ready Reference Treatise: Things Fall Apart

    By Raja Sharma

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    Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader.

    But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

    I would strongly advise all students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see that the same story, after reading this treatise, will begin to give many new meanings to you.

    All the best.

    Raja Sharma

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateAug 9, 2012
    ISBN9781476176383
    Ready Reference Treatise: Things Fall Apart
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise - Raja Sharma

      Ready Reference Treatise: Things Fall Apart

      Raja Sharma

      Copyright@ 2012 Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Chinua Achebe is one of the most celebrated African writers, best known for his all time best novel Things Fall Apart. It was published in English Language in 1958.

      Things Fall Apart is the first African novel written in English and it received universal acclaim. The book is often seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English. It has been so successful that it has been included in course of studies in schools throughout Africa and in many of the other English speaking countries around the world.

      The title Things Fall Apart is inspired by W. B. Yeats’s poem The Second Coming.

      The story of the novel revolves around the life of Okonkwo; he is a popular person in Umuofia, one of a fictional group of nine villages in Nigeria. Okonkwo is a leader and a local wrestling champion. The area where he lives is mostly inhabited by the Igbo people called Ibo in the novel. The story depicts mainly his family and personal history, the customs followed by the Igbo. The story shows how the British colonialism and Christian missionaries influenced the lives of the Igbo people during the last part of the 19th century. It shows how one powerful culture, through modern means and superiority of knowledge, is able to overpower the ancient customs and beliefs.

      After Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe’s next novel No Longer at Ease was published in 1960. It was initially written as the second part of a larger book together with Things Fall Apart and the other book Arrow of God, published in 1964. It was also written on the similar subject. His two other novels were A Man of the People, and "Anthills of the Savannah, which were published in 1966 and 1987 respectively. These novels did not feature Okonkwo’s descendants but, according to Chinua Achebe, were spiritual successors to the earlier novels. In his earlier novels he had chronicled African History.

      Chapter Two: Background

      The major part of the story of the novel Things Fall Apart is set in the village of Umuofia which is located in west of the actual city of Onitsha, on the east bank of the Niger river in Nigeria. Umuofia is the fictional name in the novel. The period is around the 1890s. The story presents the culture of the Igbo people which is very much similar to the culture of the people of Ogidi, Achebe’s birthplace. There were titled elders who ruled over the independent villages where Igbo speaking people lived together in groups. There were Onitsha people who lived near Ogidi. The novel presents the customs of the Onitsha people. Achebe was very much familiar with their customs.

      Achebe was born in 1930, about forty years after the arrival of the British. When he was born, the missionaries were very well established in Nigeria. Africans were converting in large numbers. Chinua Achebe’s father was among the first who were converted in Ogidi. Achebe was an orphan and he was raised by his grandfather. His grandfather was not a Christian but he did not oppose when Achebe

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