Book Response to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

  After reading the Lesson 10’s course material and textbook reading assignment, read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Then respond to one of the following questions, or form your own question, and answer it in 750 words in your portfolio document. 1. Is Okonkwo a tragic hero or a cowardly failure? Would you be heroic or suicidal if overpowering invaders, against whom resistance was futile, destroyed your culture and turned your children against you? 2. What, in your opinion, “falls apart” with the arrival of the British, and what is the primary cause of the coming apart? 3. Or, form your own narrow question and answer it. Make sure it is of a scope that can be answered in the space allowed.