"Things fall Apart" Short paper on the book by Chinua Achebe

The culture of the Umuofia society before the colonial infiltration, may be hard to understand but we are forced by Achebe to realize it has traditions and customs that make it work. Although, looking at it from our Judaeo-Christian point of view we may be appalled by some of their practices. We also have to realize that they have strengths. Things Fall apart is the idea of balance and interdependence, earth and sky, individual and …

…doesn't fit in and therefore is rejected turning only to Christianity. Achebe wrote this novel after reading Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson, he was outraged by the way Africans were perceived, he wrote this novel from 'the inside.' He wanted to communicate to the world that African societies were not mindless or barbaric, and that the colonial infiltration disturbed the unity and the balance of what was once a very dignified society and he did.