Thinking Activity " Things Fall Apart"

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THINGS FALL APART Written by CHINUA ACHEBE. and we have to written the activity quetion are as under.

 Here are some questions on Things Fall Apart. Students are requested to answer the questions in 300 words. 

1. What is historical context of Things Fall Apart?

2. What is the significant of the title?

3. Write a brief note on the concept of 'Chi' in Things Fall Apart?

4. What do you think about the incident of Ikemefuna? How does it help to understand the Ibo culture in more specific ways?

5. Write a brief note on Ibo people's belief in the world of spirits.

6. How is the difference between the father land and the mother land is described in Things Fall Apart?

7. Write a brief note on the concept of Nativism and Native identity in Things Fall Apart.

8. Point out the important points of Things Fall Apart which can be compared with Kanthapura by Raja Rao

1) What is historical context of Things Fall Apart?

Ans: Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s and portrays the clash between Nigeria's white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people. Achebe's novel shatters the stereotypical European portraits of native Africans. While the novel might be fiction, it accurately depicts the pains of colonialism and provides insight into the point of view of those being colonized opposed to those colonizing. History, in this case, wasn't written by the victor. He is careful to portray the complex, advanced social institutions and artistic traditions of Igbo culture prior to its contact with Europeans. • Achebe write the novel in English but the text is rich with African words. This allows the reader a closer connection to the people and their life (Social institutions are groups of persons banded together for common purposes).

2)   What is the significant of the title?
Ans: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a novel whose title bears the central massage of the work. The very title 'Things Fall Apart' foreshadows the tragedy which takes place at the end of the novel. The novel depicts the tragedy of an individual as well as the tragedy of a society.
The phrase "things fall apart" is taken from the poem, “The Second Coming” by W.B Yeats, which Achebe quotes more extensively in the epigraph. Achebe’s literary allusion to Yeats’ poem might deepen or extend—by comparison and/or contrast—the meaning's) of Achebe’s title and his novel.  The beginning four lines of the poem are referred as a preface of the novel.
Okonkwo’s Life Falls Apart:
Igbo Society Falls Apart:
The Society Itself Responsible For Falling Apart:
Igbo Society Encounters the Colonial Masters and Falls Apart:
The colonial politics affects the Igbo society

3. Write a brief note on the concept of 'Chi' in Things Fall Apart?

Ans: The chi is an individual's personal god, whose merit is determined by the individual's good fortune or lack thereof. Along the lines of this interpretation, one can explain Okonkwo's tragic fate as the result of a problematic chi —a thought that occurs to Okonkwo at several points in the novel. In Igbo society chi is an individual’s personal god or guardian angel, or spirit.A person must work hard to be successful, but their success is also dependent on the support of their chi.Chi can also be conceptualized as someone’s personal fate or destiny.One’s identity is tied to their chi – the Igbo’s see things in dualities and the importance of maintaining balance in one’s life is key to a successful personal life and community.If one lives a life out of balance (Okonkwo for example) then they are going against their chi, and will suffer for it.
4. What do you think about the incident of Ikemefuna? How does it help to understand the Ibo culture in more specific ways?
Ans: More than half the novel is devoted to a depiction of Igbo culture, artfully drawn Okonkwo, upholder of the ways of his ancestors, is inevitably cast in the role of ow does the point of view contribute to our understanding of the conflicting cultures?  Why do you think Achebe uses the archaic spelling, Ibo,
5. Write a brief note on Ibo people's belief in the world of spirits.
Ans: Traditional Igbo religion includes belief in a creator god (Chukwu or Chineke), an earth goddess (Ala), and numerous other deities and spirits as well as a belief in ancestors who protect their living descendants. Chukwu is the supreme being of Igbo spirituality. In the Igbo pantheon, Chukwu is the source of all other Igbo deities and is responsible for assigning them their different tasks.
6. How is the difference between the father land and the mother land is described in Things Fall Apart?
Ans: Description of where and when Things Fall Apart takes place. For instance, Umuofia is Okonkwo's father's home village, which makes it Okonkwo's fatherland. to another of the nine villages, Mbanta, which is Okonkwo's motherland—that is, the Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our.
7. Write a brief note on the concept of Nativism and Native identity in Things Fall Apart.
Ans: literary themes in Richard Wright's novel Native Son and Chinua Achebe's pioneering African  Things Fall Apart present an interesting pair of "star" characters in their chief  lucid introduction to the novel, Wright wrote of Bigger, highlighting the authenticate or uphold their nativism (used here in the sense of identity as. Languages and Identity in Postcolonial African Literature:  Nigerian author Chinua Achebe once wrote that the time and place in  Achebe's first novel, Things Fall Apart, speaks truth about Africa and  first chapter will explain a linguistic definition of language  not according to the worth of his father” father "Things Fall Apart take  Aristotle defined the tragic hero as a character who is superior and noble, one who  In the chapters ahead, the reader should note the qualities and actions that .

8. Point out the important points of Things Fall Apart which can be compared with Kanthapura by Raja Rao
Ans: haps appropriate to go back to Rao's much-discussed ... which, as K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar points out, "the silence is more ... Rao, Raja, Kanthapura, New York, New Directions, 1963. ... the importance of sending him to church. ... point with him. ... our tradition.8 ... 6 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London, Heinemann,. But a durable writer can and ought to rise above the immediacies of reality, and ... Raja Rao, the man of silence, who was stilled into eternal silence on July 8, 2006 at ... Specifics': Raja Rao's Kanthapura and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart ...
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