Humanities Homework Help

I’m working on a Religion question and need guidance to help me study.

For this assignment you will read and write a review of Chinua Achebe’s acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, which many Western scholars consider the first great African novel. (the book can be found on spark notes)

A typical book review includes a brief account of the plot and main characters, along with identification of the key situations, themes and ideas being dealt with in the book. A review then provides an assessment of such things as the quality of the writing, the power of the story telling, the depth of the development of characters and the world they inhabit, the importance of the issues being addressed, the extent to which the book successfully addresses these issues, etc. With this assignment you should definitely connect the book to themes we are dealing with in our course, as that is the main reason I am having you read this book and write this review. Some things that you might find helpful are addressing ways in which the protagonist may represent his culture, the differences between the two missionaries in their interactions with the Igbo people and especially what Achebe might be saying to Western readers in the way that the story ends.