Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Detailed Explanation in Urdu Hindi

Chinua Achebe 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013 was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), often considered his masterpiece, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. The literary works of Chinua Achebe basically revolve around issues touching directly or indirectly on cultural traditions, effects of colonization and internal conflicts existing among contemporary Africans. Character List Okonkwo Nwoye Ezinma Ikemefuna Mr.Brown Reverend James Smith Uchendu The District Commissioner Unoka Obierika Ekwefi Enoch Ogbuefi Ezeudu Chielo Akunna Nwakibi Mr. Kiaga Okagbue Uyanwa Maduka Obiageli Ojiugo Important Questions Title Significance Themes As a Postcolonial Novel Character of Okonkwo Ibgo Culture Representation of society Superstitions Summary Okonkwo Umuofia clan, a lower Nigerian tribe that is part of a consortium of nine connected villages Unoka Nwoye In a settlement with a neighboring tribe, Umuofia wins a virgin and a fifteen-year-old boy Okonkwo takes charge of the boy, Ikemefuna, and finds an ideal son in him. Week of Peace | Okonkwo accuses his youngest wife, Ojiugo Ikemefuna stays with Okonkwo’s family for three years. One day, the locusts come to Umuofia Ogbuefi Ezeudu, a respected village elder, informs Okonkwo in private that the Oracle has said that Ikemefuna must be killed. Ikemefuna thinks about seeing his mother Ikemefuna runs to Okonkwo for help. But Okonkwo, who doesn’t wish to look weak in front of his fellow tribesmen, cuts the boy down despite the Oracle’s admonishment. When Okonkwo returns home, Nwoye deduces that his friend is dead. Okonkwo sinks into a depression, neither able to sleep nor eat. He visits his friend Obierika and begins to feel revived a bit. Okonkwo’s daughter Ezinma falls ill, but she recovers after Okonkwo gathers leaves for her medicine. The death of Ogbuefi Ezeudu Tragedy compounds upon itself when Okonkwo’s gun explodes and kills Ogbuefi Ezeudu’s sixteen-year-old son. killing a clansman is a crime against the earth goddess, Okonkwo must take his family into exile for seven years in order to atone. Okonkwo’s kinsmen, especially his uncle, Uchendu, receive him warmly. During the second year of Okonkwo’s exile, Obierika brings several bags of cowries (shells used as currency) that he has made by selling Okonkwo’s yams. Obierika plans to continue to do so until Okonkwo returns to the village. Obierika also brings the bad news that Abame, another village, has been destroyed by the white man. Soon afterward, six missionaries travel to Mbanta. Through an interpreter named Mr. Kiaga, the missionaries’ leader, Mr. Brown, speaks to the villagers. He tells them that their gods are false and that worshipping more than one God is idolatrous. But the villagers do not understand how the Holy Trinity can be accepted as one God. Although his aim is to convert the residents of Umuofia to Christianity, Mr. Brown does not allow his followers to antagonize the clan. Mr. Brown grows ill and is soon replaced by Reverend James Smith The District Commissioner is upset by the burning of the church and requests that the leaders of Umuofia meet with him. After the prisoners are released, the clansmen hold a meeting, during which five court messengers approach and order the clansmen to desist. Okonkwo realizes that his clan is not willing to go to war. Okonkwo has hanged himself. Obierika and his friends lead the commissioner to the body. Obierika explains that suicide is a grave sin; thus, according to custom, none of Okonkwo’s clansmen may touch his body. The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger. #Things_Fall_Apart #Postcolonial_Novel #Chinua_Achebe