Achebe, C. (1994). Things Fall Apart. New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc. Essay

Achebes (1994) novel, Things Fall Apart, is a chronicle of societal transmute in the face of a colonial invasion. It describes the life of Okonkwo, a distinguished leader of a closure in Nigeria. The rich, powerful, brave and healthy man has worked hard to achieve his high status in his closure. The village elders thus chose him to be the guardian of a boy named Ikemefuna, who has been made captive by Achebes tribe. Okonkwo must keep the boy with him until the Oracle decides otherwise.When the village elders decide that Ikemefuna must be killed, Okonkwo goes against the advice of the sr.est man of the village by killing the boy himself. Subsequently, things start to conciliate apart for Okonkwo. He accidentally kills some other individual at a funeral ceremony. For this act he must be sent into exile with his family for a period of seven years. After all, he has offended his gods by committing the murder.After Okonkwo and his family have been sent into exile, things start to fall apart for his people back home. White men begin to accede his village, amiably introducing their religion to the indwelling people. As the number of people embrace the peeled faith increases, the white entrants grow in power. Ultimately, a new governing is formed in the village that of white people.When Okonkwo returns to his village, it is a incompatible place altogether. The presence of white men is a change he had not expected. Unhappy with the change, he tries to work with other tribal leading to reclaim the old government. They do this by destroying a Christian church that they believe has mocked their gods. The white government retaliates by taking Okonkwo and the other tribal leaders as pris wizrs, holding them for ransom, and humiliating the native leaders further.A great uprising ensues, as the native people of the village take in to oppose the white government. When the white government tries to stop their meeting by sending some of its messengers, Okonkwo is the only one who kills one of the messengers. His ally native people allow the remaining messengers to escape, however. Okonkwo is made to understand thus that the villagers be too weak to fight for themselves and/or protect their rights. He thereof begins to believe in the end of his society, reinforcing its disintegration in the following lyric Now the white man has won our brothers, and our clan can no long-lived act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.Okonkwo kills himself soon after. The white government sends one of its local leaders to take the great man of the village to court. At this point, Okonkwo is found to have hanged himself. The great mans terminal is a sign of the total demise of his peoples old ways of life. After all, it was Okonkwo alone who was strong enough to kill one of the white men in an attempt to eradicate their government. None of his fellow native people were as determined as he.Still, Okonk wos bill is a powerful reminder that nothing can withstand forces of change at times. regular the heroes may turn to despair if the forces of change ar too powerful to fight. Such forces may change people and their cultures for ever. Even so, the memories of the heroes remain, as in Things Fall Apart.