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Achebe really focuses on his people in Nigeria. He was able to create a book that is about the different leaders they have in Nigeria, the many cultures and all of the thing Nigerians do. How men grew yams and women grew other crops.

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Grabbing from the story is the British trying to change the Nigerian Culture and the way they express their religion and culture, seeing how the Nigerian men were the “ power “ in the culture. Achebe was a great character to express practice of “ earning a title “ instead of passing it down by family

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Achebe writes to educate his fellow Nigerians and the world about their culture and traditions with literature which includes a breakdown of traditional African Culture during European Colonization in the 1800s. In his first novel, 'Things Fall Apart', describes the confrontation between the Igbo people of Southeast Nigerian and the British who came to colonize them. Achebe is a socialist novelist who believed the power of literature can create social change and his writing style alone influenced other African writers and pioneered a new literary style. In Igbo's patriarchal culture, men grew yams and women grew other crops. Yams were deemed more important.

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What brings me most to this video is that during Okonkwo's exile, the white man arrives in Umuofia and Mbanto.. The missionaries arrive first, preaching a religion that seems crazy to the Igbo people.

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What this story explains is that the british wanted to change the Nigerian culture and how they practice their religion, and that males were the most dominant in their culture.

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What I was able to take away from the video is that we can’t just pay attention to one side of the story. Doing so let’s them control the narrative and could close our mind off to the other side’s story.

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What i was able to take from this video Is that the Igbo tribe is one of the biggest tribes in Nigeria. The elders are the leaders in the tribe. You earn your title to become an elder. Faith is a big thing for the Igbo tribe. Chukwu is the known as the supreme god or creator of world.

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This story is the first story from the point of view of conilized people of Nigeria 100 years after Nigeria regaining independence from Britain. The Igbo people are the third largest group in Nigeria. They are also agricultural. They have a patriarchal society which means that all decisions are male based only. Elders are the leaders of the tribe with a polytheitic religion.

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What I was able to take with me from this video was the important fact that this novel was written to show the point of view of the Igbo people and allow to the readers to understand that although their culture was different, the people of Southern Nigeria were just as civilized as the people in the western part of the world.

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The story explains a lot of the British colonization of Nigeria and how the British rewrote history in a way that favors them. The boy learns that the Nigerians have a completely different side of history that they have yet to tell.

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This story gives you a lot of knowledge and background on history

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Achebe is a social writer and creates his novels by using story telling to seek the readers attention and show his perspective in African's eyes.

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Achebe's tribe believed that if you did other religious things you were considered a heathen and that was something that you shouldn't do.

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My biggest take away from this video is mostly about the igbo culture. The men can have as many wives they want, females can't and they will have to go live with their husbands.

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Achebe believed that the Lgbo people had their own personal stories that should have been told about the British people colonizing them and different treatments during that time.

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Achebe was a very well educated person and he wanted to educate other Nigerians about their culture and traditions.

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The novel " Things fall apart " is in  the perspective from what in really are the victims of clonization and slavery its walks through the thoughts , soacil norms, and dai

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Achebe wrote the story to tell both sides of the story. He shows how Africans survived even though they were over powered by British and looked at as savages

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Achebe is a social novelist and he believes in power of literature to create social change

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People in America would read "Things fall apart" to educate themselves on their history.

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Achebe purpose of writing this story is to spark social change. He wants the reader to see though colonized Africans eyes.

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Unlike today’s Society back then titles were earned and not inherited. The older you got the higher power you had.

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In the novel "things fall apart" he shows some of the first perspectives from Africans during the time of colonization. Showed people that africans were not savages, rather intelligent beings.

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Nigeria gained independence from Britain in 1960's

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Achebe influenced other African American writers and Pioneered a new literary style using Traditional idioms,Folk Tale, and Proverbs.