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| title | Things Fall Apart |
| Author | Chinua Achebe |
| Genre | Postcolonial critique; tragedy |
| setting (time) | 1800's |
| Narrator | anonyumous, but shows sympathy to villagers |
| Point of view | third person |
| tone | ironic, tragic, satirical, fablelike |
| tense | past |
| setting (place) | Lower Nigerian villages (Iquedo & Mbanta) |
| Protagonist | Okonkwo |
| Major conflict | traditional society & white missionaries |
| Okonkwo's conflict | being different from his dead Father |
| Rising Action | Enoch's unmasking of the Egwugwu |
| Climax | Okonkwo's murder of court messenger |
| Falling Action | Okonkwo's suicide |
| Theme 1 | struggle btwn tradition & change |
| Theme 2 | varying definitions of masculinity |
| Theme 3 | language as a sign of cultural difference |
| Symbol: locusts | colonists descending upon Africans |
| Symbols: fire | Okonkwo's nature-fierce, destructive |
| Symbols: drums | heartbeat of the village |
