From the Blogs: Things Fall Apart Thoughts

Some additional thoughts about Things Fall Apart to discuss, comment on, or at least consider:

• Despite widespread hostility in the class towards Okonkwo, Tiphani finds someone to love.
• Granolagod questions the way that societies construct reality through their rituals and beliefs.
• Peacefreak77 examines the loss of culture present in colonial thinking, as well as the sexism of Okonkwo.
• Gonephishin wonders why Okonkwo is so mean.
• Quixotic is reminded why he enjoys the novel and wonders about Okonkwo, offers a passage comparing Okonkwo to his father, and looks at Ikemefuna's death.