1. Setting/Subject - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is set in an area of ​​Nigeria called Umuofia, one of Nigeria's nine villages, where people live in huts in family compounds and grow yams and harvest palm nuts to live. This is taking place at the same time as European colonialism of Africa is being introduced into the region. The author placed it here to show the interactions between white colonialists, almost all of whom were missionaries, and indigenous African people. The setting shows the culture of the Nigerian people before and after colonial contact and how the settlers brought about a change in Nigerian society that had remained unchanged for many years. The book, published in 1959, was probably written in protest against British control of Nigeria. Summary - In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the main character adopts a son from another village as payment for the murder of a "daughter of Umuofia". Three years later, Okonkwo even says he loves Ikemefuna more than his own son. But it is then decreed, by the spiritual leader of the village, that Ikemefuna must die. Many people walk together and take him into the woods, but it is Okonkwo himself who ultimately realizes it. Here is Okonkwo killing Ikemefuna: “He heard Ikemefuna shout: “My father, they have killed me! » as he ran towards him. Stunned with fear, Okonkwo took out his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being seen as weak” (Achebe 61). His action causes him a lot of internal turmoil and sorrow. This also causes him to push away his eldest son, Nwoye, who feels pressure to be great from his father, Okonkwo, who had father/son issues himself. This shows that Okonkwo is a very traditional person who does not tolerate change and will do everything possible to protect traditions and that his pride is his greatest flaw. Another key moment is the death of Ezeudu's son. Okonkwo accidentally kills him when his gun goes off, because of this Okonkwo and his family are banished. He goes to Mbanta, his mother's homeland, where they meet the missionaries. The meeting with the missionaries is the first culture shock of the book and Okonkwo speaks of it like this: “Now he has won over our brothers, and our clan can no longer act as one. He put a knife on the narrator and Point of View - Things Fall Apart was told in the third person from an omniscient point of view. I think it was partly to broaden the reading audience. If the book had been written from the first point of view, then it would be very difficult for an English speaker to read. It was probably written in third person omniscient to show events from the perspectives of many people. The reason he would do this is because if one of the characters' narrow beliefs were the only lens we saw the story through the impact wouldn't be as great. A great example of the use of multiple angles in Things Fall Apart is an excerpt from the end of the book: “He had already chosen the title of the book, after careful consideration: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger” (Achebe 209). ). In this case, the author portrays the story through the arrogant and ethnocentric point of view of the white missionary. His view was very opposed to the rest of the book which gave the reader the experience of living with the culture and, in the minds of its people, making a decision for himself about the strengths and weaknesses of his culture . It's trying to show you that the Western middle-class white point of view isn't the only one. This contradiction at the end of the book attempts to make the reader reflect on the narrow-mindedness of the missionary with regard to his culture and on the