The novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe creates a powerful story that paints an intricate portrait of the Ibo culture in Africa. The author analyzes the destruction of African culture in Nigeria after the appearance of the “white man.” Achebe tells the story of a Nigerian man, Okonkwo, who confronts English colonial powers and struggles to save his culture and identity from the colonization of the Europeans. Although the novel is “unique and richly African, …showed first 75 words of 1964 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1964 total…the reader to make predictions about what may happen next in the plot. All these techniques, in essence, contribute to the themes of the story and add life to the literature by strengthening it in various ways. The author writes eloquently and objectively. He does not favor the Africans, nor the Europeans. Achebe simply presents the Nigerians fairly and implants a sense of sympathy in the reader for this unfortunate society that tragically, “falls apart.”