Things Fall ApartThings Fall Apart by by Chinua AchebeChinua Achebe

September 22, 2011September 22, 2011

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William Butler Yeats: "The William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming" (1921)Second Coming" (1921)

The poem was written after the catastrophe The poem was written after the catastrophe of World War I and with communism rising.of World War I and with communism rising.Yeats believed that history in part moved in Yeats believed that history in part moved in two thousand-year cycles. two thousand-year cycles. The Christian era, which followed that of the The Christian era, which followed that of the ancient world, was about to give way to an ancient world, was about to give way to an ominous period represented by the rough, ominous period represented by the rough, pitiless beast in the poem. pitiless beast in the poem.

"The Second Coming" "The Second Coming"

Turning and turning in the widening Turning and turning in the widening gyre gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereeverywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstThe best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Are full of passionate intensity.

A Gyre is a Spiral, making the figure of a cone. A Gyre is a Spiral, making the figure of a cone.

Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand;The Second Coming! Hardly are those words The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outoutWhen a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertdesertA shape with lion body and the head of a A shape with lion body and the head of a man,man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itIs moving its slow thighs, while all about itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThe darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries That twenty centuries of stony sleepof stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at And what rough beast, its hour come round at lastlastSlouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Things Fall ApartThings Fall Apart

►19581958►NigeriaNigeria► Ibo CultureIbo Culture►Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930►Story based on events of Achebe’s Story based on events of Achebe’s

grandfather- Okonkwograndfather- Okonkwo

Three PartsThree Parts

►1. The life of the Ibo people before the 1. The life of the Ibo people before the arrival of white peoplearrival of white people

►2. Okonkwo’s seven years of exile and 2. Okonkwo’s seven years of exile and the arrival of the colonial culture.the arrival of the colonial culture.

►3. How the white people’s law, 3. How the white people’s law, education, power and economics education, power and economics strangle and destroy the whole Ibo strangle and destroy the whole Ibo culture.culture.

Character ChartsCharacter Charts

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Name Name DescriptionDescription Quote pg #Quote pg #

Include: Amalinze, Okonkwo, Unoka, Include: Amalinze, Okonkwo, Unoka, Okoye, Ikemefuna, Ezeugo, & Nwoye Okoye, Ikemefuna, Ezeugo, & Nwoye

Read Chapter 1Read Chapter 1

►What does “proverbs are the palm-oil What does “proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten” mean?with which words are eaten” mean?

Read Chapter 2Read Chapter 2

►What effect does the night have on the What effect does the night have on the people?people?

►What do they fear?What do they fear?►What is the conflict with Mbaino?What is the conflict with Mbaino?

Read Chapter 3Read Chapter 3

►Who is Agbala?Who is Agbala?►How is awareness of rank observed in How is awareness of rank observed in

the drinking of the palm wine?the drinking of the palm wine?►How does share-cropping work?How does share-cropping work?►What is women’s relationship to What is women’s relationship to

agriculture?agriculture?

HomeworkHomework

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