Things Fall Apart 9
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
When Chinua Achebe was writing the book, Things Fall Apart, he had just read and thought about the poem written by William Butler Yeats. Th ....
Middle of paper
.... the section of the book, Things Fall Apart, when the tribe is loosing its camaraderie and heading more in the direction of the new religion. The widening gyre is the tribe becoming further apart. Obierika said, “Our own men and our sons have joined the ranks of the stranger. They have joined his religion and they help to uphold his government.”(Pg. 161, Paragraph 6) The tribe may have been able to get rid of the missionaries earlier but now it is too late and there are too many con ....
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Word count: 1027
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)