ust before the harvest, the village holds the Feast of the New Yam to give thanks to the earth goddess, Ani. Okonkwo doesn’t really care for feasts because he considers them times of idleness. The women thoroughly scrub and decorate their huts, throw away all of their unused yams from the previous year, and use cam wood to paint their…
Year: 2016
Things Fall Apart Background Information
Political Context • Approval of the entire clan is necessary before any major decision is made. • Egwugwu, the representative of the ancestral spirits, are integral in administering tribal justice. • Ndichie, the elders of the village, have a place of honour in the clan and their advice is respected. • The priests get their power from the Oracle, and…
To Da-duh, In Memoriam Comprehension Passage
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions set on it. In the following extract, the narrator and her sister have come from New York to visit their grandmother, Da-duh, in the Caribbean. One morning toward the end of our stay, Da-duh led me into a part of the gully that we had never visited before, an area…
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe-Background Information
Things Fall Apart is an English-language novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, published in 1958 by William Heinemann Ltd in the UK. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, one of the first to receive global critical acclaim. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and is widely read and studied in English-speaking countries…
This is the Dark Time, My Love -Martin Carter
The persona speaks to someone that he cares for. He tells this person that this is the dark time, which is, in essence, a time of sadness. It is implied, by certain key terms; such as ‘dark metal’, that it is a time of war. The persona warns his ‘love’ that it is a dark, sad time. LITERARY DEVICES 1. REPETITION…