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PAPER EXAMPLE # 4 Cultural
Change in The nineteenth-century Ibo culture Chinua Achebe presents in his novel "Things Fall Apart" seems very basic on the surface. In this tropical African region which will eventually become part of Nigeria, the Ibo live in little villages, closely attuned to the rhythms of nature. Farming is the main occupation. The novel tells what happens to Ibo society when British missionaries come into the Ibo villages to convert the heathen; Achebe implies that at that point things literally begin to fall apart because the Ibo culture, as epitomized by the one particular man, Okonkwo, ceases to have any real sense of its identity. However, the story also seems to show that this internal dissolution took place in Okonkwo a long time before. Okonkwo derives his eminence in the villages from the fact that as a teenager he was a champion wrestler. Wrestling is a highly-valued skill, because the Ibo apparently believe that it translates to all kinds of other attributes; the great wrestler is the one who can never be thrown by life. This is emphatically not the case with Okonkwo, but, huge and physically imposing as an adult, he doesn’t realize this...
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