Write an analytical paper about Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. What is your inventive argument about the novel?
Perhaps you would like to take a new route with your work. For your consideration, the following are some examples:
1.Achebe constructs the novel in three parts. Compare and contrast the novel's three parts while analyzing the plot.
- Is there one sentence from Things Fall Apart you would like to analyze and explicate? For example, in the first paragraph of Chapter 20 which is also the first paragraph to begin Part Three of the novel, Achebe uses a simile to explain Okonkwo's return to Umuofia after a seven-year absence. Achebe writes, "The clan was like a lizard; if it lost its tail it soon grew another" (171). What does Achebe mean? How can you apply this sentence throughout Achebe's novel?
- Compare and contrast two characters from Things Fall Apart.
- What is the significance of dress, style of dress, and/or dress for a ritual in Things Fall Apart?
- What is your analysis of the marriage customs and ceremonies Achebe presents in the novel?