Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Things Fall Apart: Paper 2 text
- Part 1
- Non-linear structure
- Lacks plot development
- Focuses on cultural background
- Wants to show that African people have a much more complicated lifestyle
- Wants to show their humanity
- Ibo conversation style being spoken through proverb to mirror
the lack of development of the plot
- Part 2
- Sped up plot mirrors short time in which
the culture is destroyed
- White man portrayed as 'womanly' because they
are compassionate
- Okonkwo
- Looks very masculine
- Walks as if he were about to hunt his prey
- Desires driven by the fear of becoming his father
- Father was weak
- Ultimately leads to his downfall as a tragic character
- Lack of language
- Ibo culture and the art of communication
revolves around language
- Argueably not a man but a
symbol of Ibo masculinity
- First english novel written form the
perspective of an African