Things Fall Apart Essay The book "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, is about a man named Okonkwo,who is a member of the Umuofia clan in Nigeria. Okonkwo was the son of a shameful man, named Unoka. Unoka was shameful because he feared blood, wasted money, his children and wife went hungry often and he died from a swelling stomach and limbs, and was sent to the Evil Forest to die. Okonkwo escaped his …
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…a school, and encourage the villagers to send their kids there, and the build a hospital that has really good treatments. In the end the villagers burn down the church and are thrown in jail for it. They are beaten and mistreated there. Okonkwo hangs himself, and that is a grave sin. The clans men don't touch his body, and a white man decided to write about Okonkwos death in a book he is writing.