Thought on Things Fall Apart

At first I wasn't really interested in the book, the intro was not interesting personally and I lost my thoughts when reading about the things I didn't understand. After about the 2-3 chapters I found the book to be interesting because of the new way of life that the Igbo people introduced to me. Many of the characters were interesting also because the specific ways they interacted with each other. The author develops many individual and special traits and pasts for each character. For example, Ekwefi had lost 9 children, which the elder of the village, called to their own culture, gods, and teaching to break the curse of Ekwefi. They did not have doctors and technology like us, but relied on the teachings that were passed down and their traditions. This intrigued me because every village had different traditions creating Africa a vastly diverse in culture. My thoughts on character development is that Achebe is a extremely talented writer because he is able to create such detailed and unique attributes to every character that he creates. He also doesn't side with one side or the other (Africans and Europeans). He keeps things unbiased as he tells this story of before, during, and after colonization.