Suhair Fuaad Hajo
پوخته
A first reading of the novel reveals the fact that what fall apart in Things fall apart areIgbo’s cultures and traditions. Accordingly a lot of readings have been done on the ...
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A first reading of the novel reveals the fact that what fall apart in Things fall apart areIgbo’s cultures and traditions. Accordingly a lot of readings have been done on the novelwith almost similar disclosures; considering it as a postcolonial novel and as Achebe’sresponse to the white racism embedded in European literature, which presented Africaas a primitive and socially retrograde nation. Hence, reading Things Fall Apart from anew and distinct perspective with the aid of trances from reader response criticism, thisstudy aims to answer the question of; what really falls apart (in Things Fall Apart) andhow? Through a close and transactional reading of the novel this study demonstrates thatIgbo’s culture and religion didn’t fall apart but changed and in fact, what falls apart inThings Fall Apart is Okonkwo, the protagonist of the novel. By studying and comparinghis conducts, before and after killing Ikemefona it reveals that his mortal sin parts himbeyond the limits of his cultural conventions, in the process of gaining his individualpurposes, which later leads to his downfall.