Things Fall Apart: An Analysis
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The culture of the Umuofia society before the colonial infiltration, may be
hard to understand but we are forced by Achebe to realize it has traditions and
customs that make it work. Although, looking at it from our Judaeo-Christian
point of view we may be appalled by some of their practices. We ....
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.... luck that occurs, people of this culture would say that you have a bad
"chi."
Okonkwo's destiny is marked by bad luck, one reason may be that he is so
driven by the fear of resembling his father that he struggles to repress part of
his personality with predictably afflicted results.
This was a society where a man was judged by his own achievement and not
that of his fathers. Yams were the primary crop of Umuofia. A sign of
manliness was if you could farm yams to feed your family. ....
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