Literature Analysis 1

A book that I have read is called 'Things Fall Apart" so, this story is about a wealthy man that is wealthy and respected as a warrior. This story takes place in Africa. Okonkwo the protagonist hates his father Unoka, Unoka was known to be a coward and also a person who never kept his promises when people gave him money.However, Okonkwo was a much different man and this was shown with his characteristics. Okonkow is a father and has three wives, but his oldest son Nwoye is seen as a lazy boy and Okonkwo fears that his son will end up being like his father. So there is a week known as  "Peace Week" so there is a rule towards this week and that is that no violence is prohibited during this week. Okonkwo gets himself into a situation where he is accusing his youngest wife and he beats her. The community finds out and that is where the community soon looses the respect they once had for this fierce fighter. Okonkwo is then kicked out of the town and can come back in 7 years. He moves with his parents in a near by village. So going towards the end some, European settlers end up on this tribes area and then this leads to them turning some of these tribesmen into Christianity. So Okonkwo returns and he is angered that these men are making a change. Okonkwo isn't looked as the fierce warrior he was once known as. Okonkwo leads an angry mob to burn down the church and this leads to Okonkwo being starved in a cell until his daughter bails him out. Okonkwo kills the leader of these European settlers and Okonkwo is all left by himself because he thought his fellow warriors were going to fight amongst him but they end up not doing so. So at the end Okonkwo ends hanging himself before he is captured.

The theme in this story is that you wont always be the bigger person. Just like how Okonkwo was once seen as the "greatest" he had lost all his power.

I feel like the author of "Things Fall Apart" gets up in the morning and just sees the problems in the world. The author is probably a serious man who eats French toast drinks his orange juice and just looks at the newspaper too see what else the world has come too. Yet the author goes to sleep not feeling complete because he sees society as a joke.

Some literary techniques that I used while finding the theme were context clues. Context clues are great because this helps you find anything out just by reading the passage. Another strategy that I used was imagery as in where I pictured everything that I read onto my head. Allegory played a big part as well because the plot of the story reminded me of history on how European settlers would dominate Africa and then would make millions worth of profit due to the crops they planted over at Africa