By Charles Sherman

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is about the rise and downfall of a man named Okonkwo.

He was determined to be the greatest. He was able to beat the best wrestler and become a great farmer.

One of the things I find weird is that he could show ruthlessness on battlefield but also some type of love to his family. This is also a sad thing — that he can’t get his anger issues and he beats on his wife and kids.

I don’t understand why he does some of the things he does, like when he killed Ikemefuna to prove he wasn’t a “women”. After another incident, he ends up getting banned from his tribe and it breaks him because everything he has worked for is gone like that.

Seven years later is when the book gets very interesting. He ends up killing himself because he believes that his clan has lost itsway after missionaries and the British government moves in.

This book was mostly interesting. It shows how life was like for Africans who were not enslaved, which I haven’t seen in many books or movies. That’s what I enjoyed the most.