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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is the story of the post-colonial difference between Africa and Europe, as well as the difference between the Western way of doing things and the tribal awareness. It is the story of the psychological and social consequences of the shift from the tribal native society to the Western mode brought about by the Imperialistic takeover. Achebe's novel certainly foreshadows the end of a world: the invasion of the white man into the society of the African Ibo, and the following disbanding of the native culture. The image of things falling apart is a suitable one. We learn that from the author's point of view, Ibo culture is held together by one string -- its own traditions. This string will not break, but when pulled it will unravel or loosen; causing everything it holds together to literally fall apart.
Although his father was a lazy man who earned no titles in the Ibo tribe, Okonkwo is a considered a great man in his home of Umuofia, which consists......

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