Things Fall Apart

: Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe and is primarily set in the Igbo village of Umuofa in Eastern Nigeria. The novel is an attack on a perspective held almost universally in the West, and to some extend in Africa, that the pre- colonial era was a time of unsophisticated savagery. By focusing on the life of Okonkwo, in a story of the collapse of traditional life, Achebe is able to give readers a personal and meaningful insight into the richness of life in the Igbo society before the arrival of the British.

The narrative of Things Fall Apart is separated into three parts and concentrates to a very large degree on the fortunes of its main character, Okonkwo. Through mainly this character, every chapter within this novel enables the reader to learn a different/ new aspect of the Igbo society. In Chapter thirteen, which concludes part one of the novel, the reader learns about funeral rites as one of their cl...