Things Fall Apart (Macmillan Reader) by Chinua Achebe, John Davey Summary and Reviews
|
Our Price: $7.73 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of Things Fall Apart (Macmillan Reader)
Book Review: Feminist Implications
Summary: 5 Stars
This novel could be analyzed and discussed from any of several vantages. I won't re-write the reasons for what everyone else has said - that this is a timeless classic - although that is true. I instead want to recommend this book for any student of women's issues, particularly any African-American student of women's issues, because I am surprised at the lack of discourse on this novel from a feminist point-of-view. As I am using the word, feminist merely means "from a female vantage." This novel is chock full of material which should stimulate discussion on this basisBook Review: Complexity in simplicity
Summary: 4 Stars
The language is simple but the ideas and themes conveyed are complex. Achebe is indeed a master of imagery. The rich African culture is highlighted in this novel, the many rituals, festivals and customs compell readers. This book can be read on two levels, firstly for it's simple story, secondly for it's underlying depiction on the harms of European colonisationBook Review: This book will broaden your horizons.
Summary: 5 Stars
Chinua Achebe's masterpiece transcends national boundaries, providing a poignant account of societal devastation and of the human condition. In eloquently understated prose, the book exposes many of the horrors that lie buried deep within European colonial and Christian missionary history.
This book should be on the reading list for every high school in America.Book Review: Beautiful imagery and exotic beliefs make this a must-read.
Summary: 5 Stars
Chinua Achebe, in "Things Fall Apart", shows the exotic lives and ways of the Ibo people of pre-colonial Nigeria. The ways of the people are so appealing and so well-explained to Western readers, that we feel as though we are gathering yams from the farm, and offering agricultural sacrifice to our long-dead ancestors.
Achebe uses beautiful imagery to show how simplistic life before colonization was. The old-ways of the Ibo tribe are shown to be dogmatic to the main character, Okonkwo, who plays out to be more like a Greek tragic hero than an African farmer. Throughout the novel, are several Ibo words, adding to the strength of the imagery of the Ibo lifestyle.
"Things Fall Apart" is a great read for anyone interested in African culture and/or the colonization effects of Western society.Book Review: Things Fall Apart is a world classic about colonization
Summary: 5 Stars
Things Fall Apart is a look into the Ibo world before and after British colonial penetration. It exemplifies the steps of colonization and its devastating implications on native peoples throughout the world whether they are the Maoris of New Zealand or Chicanos in the Southwest