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Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Chapter 1 – Chapter 2

The story starts off with introducing a character called Okonkwo, the strongest man between the 7 villages living in Unoufia. Like most of other stories do, the beginning, Chapter 1 is pretty much about introducing. It includes the background information od Okonkwo’s family, and the culture of the Ibo village in Nigeria. Okonkwo grew up in an environment that is “the fear of failure and of weakness.” His father was a great debter, but unlike his Dad, Okonkwo was successful man with mutiple wives, and a huge farmland. One day, a daughter of Umoufia was killed in a near by village Mbaino, and several young people were sent from there to fill up the space of the daughter. A boy called Ikemefuna came into Okonkwo’s household, and was told to take care of him.

There were several different types of words they used for specific things such as the ogene, the instrument for noticing that there is a meeting, the kola, the spiritual fruit. The description of their cultural daily life will help the reader understand the culture better. I predict that Okonkwo’s relation with Ikemefuna will embrace, and show a change in Okonkwo’s characteristics.