Things Fall Apart

Notes and Background Materials

• Achebe’s Biography, Techniques, and Aims as a Writer
• PowerPoint Version
• Notes on Tragedy

Additional Readings

• The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling
• The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
• “An African Voice” by Katie Bacon
• Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139, Interviewed by Jerome Brooks

Assignments

• Presentation Assignment
• Potential Test Questions (Don’t read until you finish; spoilers!)
• 2019-2020 Open Book Test Questions