Thing Fall Apart

Things fall apart

                     Proposal

Introduction

Originally written in English and published in 1958 things fall apart was one of the first novels by African author to garner worldwide acclaim. Though mostly fictional , Nigerian author Chinua Achebe claims that the book documents Africa,s spiritual history – the civilized and rich life the Igbo lived before the arrival of Europeans  and the ruinous social and cultural consequences that the arrival of Europeans missionaries brought.

Statement of the problem:

Okonkwo the tragic hero of the story is affected by a lot of things in his life. He was Effected by murdering the boy IKEMEFONA after loved him.

Question of the study :

what influence made by OKONKWO in the boy ?

what made OKONKWO kill IKEMEFONA ?

HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY

IKEMEFONA made great influence in OKONKWO life

OKONKWO was a man of honour and respect

  Important of the study :

This study show critical issue which is how one person can change the life of another .

Method of the study :

This study will use descriptive and analytical way to descripe

And analysis the event of the story .

Limit of the study :

The limit of the study is  the relation between OKONKWO and the boy and what happens to him

                          CHAPTER 2

Context :

               Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born on November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, a large village in Nigeria. Although he was the child of a Protestant missionary and received his early education in English, his upbringing was multicultural, as the inhabitants of Ogidi still lived according to many aspects of traditional Igbo (formerly written as Ibo) culture. Achebe attended the Government College in Umuahia from 1944 to 1947. He graduated from University College, Ibadan, in 1953. While he was in college, Achebe studied history and theology. He also developed his interest in indigenous Nigerian cultures, and he rejected his Christian name, Albert, for his indigenous one, Chinua.

In the 1950s, Achebe was one of the founders of a Nigerian literary movement that drew upon the traditional oral culture of its indigenous peoples. In 1959, he published Things Fall Apart as a response to novels, such as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that treat Africa as a primordial and cultureless foil for Europe. Tired of reading white men’s accounts of how primitive, socially backward, and, most important, language-less native Africans were, Achebe sought to convey a fuller understanding of one African culture and, in so doing, give voice to an underrepresented and exploited colonial subject.

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