ENG140Y1 Lecture : Things Fall Apart Notes.docx
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Known as standard englihg" taught to uk colonized countries. (x: achebe raised in intensely christian home, achebe wrote t. f. a to help his fellow africans understand their history (xi, t. f. a takes place before arrival of christianity and colonialism (xii, oko has distinguished himself in war (xiii) everything written about oko at beginning of novel give setting of a heroic age, one of the central features in t. f. a is the balance between female and male principles: No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his woman) he was not really a man (46: nwoye likes the attention from his father he gets when he mumbles and disrespects women, but still in his heart he like the stores his mother tells him more (46) example of story on pg 46, oko doesn"t beat nwoye when he doesn"t care for children books (47, locusts swarmed the area.
