Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

CliffsNotes on Things Fall Apart covers the tragic fall of the protagonist Okonkwo and the African Igbo culture. Okonkwo's fear of weakness and failure leads him to killings, alienation from his community, and, eventually, to his suicide. With Things Fall Apart, novelist Chinua Achebe offers an authentic narrative about life in Nigeria in the early 1900s and the cultural clash that occurred with the arrival of missionaries and British control.