What does Achebe reveal in the line “Among the Igbo the art of conversation…words are eaten.” on p. What is the impact of Achebe’s inclusion of the kola nut tradition? Who is Okoye and what do we learn about his purpose for visiting Unoka on pp. How does he characterize Okonkwo’s father? How does the author characterize Okonkwo in the first pages of the novel? What is ironic about Achebe’s choice of a poem from the European “canon” as both the epigraph and title for Things Fall Apart? What might be his purpose(s) in this choice? What is the overall mood of this poem? What does it seem the poet is conveying? What is the speaker’s tone in the first stanza of the poem?ĭescribe how the speaker’s tone changes from the beginning to the end of the second stanza. What is a falcon? What does this metaphor convey? Achebe's decision to use a third-person narrator instead of writing the book. Much of the novel centers on Umuofia traditions of marriage, burial, and harvest. Yeats called 'The Second Coming': 'Things fall apart the center cannot hold / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Who is the speaker? What does he seem to see/know that we don’t? The novel's title is a quote from a poem by the Irish poet W.B.
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