Things Fall Apart Work as a Whole by Carissa Richards https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5 en-us 2017-09-28 14:03:14 UTC 2018-09-20 12:08:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Consider the concept of work as a whole and how you might apply it to Things Fall Apart. Post your bold statement here along with your names. richards13 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/192079353 2017-09-28 14:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/192079353 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/192086848 2017-09-28 14:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/192086848 #3 Theme (Nicole) https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283841276 Fate and free will are central themes in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; Achebe demonstrates how Okonkwo's free will does not lead him to the fate he desired. Rather, it lead him to the fate he was always trying to avoid.

]]> 2018-09-20 11:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283841276 #3 Ashley Boros- Theme for Things Fall Apart: Prosperity 85891 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842086 In a society, especially the Igbo tribe in Umofia, prosperity is everything because only the prosperous people are the successful and powerful ones who can enact change and make important decisions.  ]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842086 #2 Katelyn Stuart https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842103 Chinua Achebe uses Okonkwo's story to convey that African culture is neither barbaric or primitive, they have an advanced community and a moral basis for their decisions.]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842103 Devan Welch #3 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842106 A man who refuses to adapt to the times will lose in the end.]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842106 Charlie Nykiel (1) https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842115 What is the book about?
- Achebe writes the story of Okonkwo, a man who falls from grace in an African tribe, to describe the inner plights of man as normality and livelihood within their life is changed into something altogether different and new.]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842115 #2 Nicholas Pirs https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842184 What is the author trying to say?
Fear can bring one's downfall. Okonkwo lives in constant fear of being his father, and that is what kills him. He also beats his children and wives because of his fear of them becoming weak. ]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842184 Bri Prater (1) https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842189 What is the overall book about? Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, tells a story about a man known through all of the nine villages and through his journey to his inevidable fall.]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842189 Charlie Marshall (1) https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842198 The book on the surface level is about Okonkwo's life story. However, on a deeper level the book is about being forced to accept that cultures change and the people within the culture must change as well or they will be left behind by the rest of the people.]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842198 Joshua Platt 4 862271 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842234 Was Okonkwo hanging himself brave or cowardly? ]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842234 Amanda Nubert (4) https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842237 The question Achebe aims to evoke is how are the cultures of modern western society and "primitive" African society equally complex and important? ]]> 2018-09-20 11:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842237 #2 Matt Berlin https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842268 Achebe is trying to demonstrate how Africans are both more complex and realistic than other African stories had portrayed  them initially. ]]> 2018-09-20 12:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842268 Fintan Bracken 1 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842292  
 
Things Fall apart is a novel about how Ibo culture was changed and altered by British Imperialism as well as how ones pride and need to prove themselves can lead to their downfall. 
]]> 2018-09-20 12:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842292 #3 Clara Ryski https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842402 A central theme in Things Fall apart is that society is driven by the eternal conflict between tradition and progress.]]> 2018-09-20 12:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842402 Gabe Rodriguez #3 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842414 The central theme of Things Fall Apart that Achebe is conveying is fear due to its continuing presence that drives Okonkwo's actions throughout the novel.]]> 2018-09-20 12:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842414 Audree Alick https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842603 1.) What is the book about? 
Things Fall Apart is a novel  about a man named Okonkwo who believes that if he is to show to be feminine, he will be seemed weak. This then results in him taking his insecurities out on his wives and children. This novel is also about how the culture has been changed by other cultures and how is can affect the people in the village. ]]> 2018-09-20 12:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842603 Dylan Gilbert #2 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842707 Achebe writes Things Fall Apart in order to tell the audience more about African Culture, as he believes many do not fully understand it. ]]> 2018-09-20 12:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842707 Chrissy Pondexter #2 https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842710 In Things Fall Apart, Achebe illustrates that African culture is civilized as a whole and he also perserve his own culture by using Igbo words and phrases to demonstrate that his culture isn't ignorant.]]> 2018-09-20 12:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842710 #4 Gracyn Allan https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842738 A question that Achebe encourages the reader to analyze as a result of reading the novel is why are masculine traits perceived as superior to those that are feminine? Does this principle apply to different societies as well?]]> 2018-09-20 12:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842738 #4 Daniel Oelbracht https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842745 Question asked by the book: How much can one man's fear motivate his life choices?]]> 2018-09-20 12:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842745 Brooke Parkinson https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842799 #4:  How much is one man willing to sacrifice for the sake of his reputation?]]> 2018-09-20 12:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/richards13/5shg16jwa6m5/wish/283842799