Things Fall Apart

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Cause and effect plays a huge part in many of all our lives. Either bringing us good to our life or bringing us misery and sadness. It also plays a huge part in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The main character, Okonkwo faces many challenges on his journey throughout his life some that were even out of his control. These events literally make his life fall apart, and eventually brought him to his death. Which had to end the way it did, at the time it did.
When Okonkwo's life goes downhill, it literally fell apart. Hence the title of the novel, Things Fall Apart. The first event in his life that represented his life falling apart was when his ‘adopted’ son was killed. This event had brought much misery to Okonkwo. Another example of his life falling apart was when he was exiled for seven years, and this resulted in him losing all he had. Lastly, another significant event was when his son, Nwoye, had converted to christianity. After this happened it showed Okonkwo that no more good would ever come to him. These events all show the downfall of Okonkwo’s life and how it is in relation with the title. His life fell apart just as easy as things fall apart. …show more content…

One of these events includes when his son was killed. Okonkwo could not stop this, and this situation brought him a large amount of misery. It had also made him reflect how his family lost belief in him, and how he had lost the same faith in his father. His other son had converted to christianity, Okonkwo couldn’t stop this either because this situation had been out of his control. These events are similar to the ones in the book Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, there were situations in this story as well as in Things Fall Apart that were not in the protagonist’s control that had influenced their journeys in life. Many of the events in the story had influenced Okonkwo through his journey, and had influenced him all the way to his

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