![]() ![]() That’s the core of Things Fall Apart and of the other two novels in Achebe’s African Trilogy - No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964). “For whom is it well, for whom is it well? Have you not hear the song they sing when a woman dies? If you think you are the greatest sufferer in the world ask my daughter, Akueni, how many twins she has borne and thrown away. I did not hang myself, and I am still alive. Do you know how many children I have buried - children I begot in my youth and strength? Twenty-two. ![]() I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. The shame and the loss of his former high status has him wallowing in self-pity.ĭo you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives once. As a result, he’s been forced to take his family into exile for seven years in Uchendu’s village. Okonkwo has been sulking in deep despair because his gun was involved in an accidental shooting that left one man in his village dead. Midway through Chinua Achebe’s 1959 novel Things Fall Apart, the central character Okonkwo is getting a dressing-down from his aged uncle Uchendu. ![]()
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