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The Breaking Point

In Chinua Achebe`s novel Things Fall Apart, outsiders disrupt a settlement based on tradition. The poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats talks about the falconer and how the widening gyre makes it so that the people lose focus of the falconer in the center of that gyre. In Things Fall Apart, there are many examples of the people losing focus on their center because of the mixing of outside cultures. The novel Things Fall Apart is a true example of the repercussions that Yeats speaks concerning the problems people face when they lose focus of their traditions and acquire new views.
In "The Second Coming", Yeats states that "Turning and turning in the widening gyre/ The falcon cannot hear the falconer" (1-2). The "gyre", or circle, centers on the falconer who is the main point of life in the tribe. In the town of Umofia, "the falconer" represents tradition. Tradition is the main focal point of the tribe and thus, the tribe's center. As the circle widens,......

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