Thoughts on Things Fall Apart

Thoughts on Things Fall Apart

   Honestly my thoughts on this book are very minimal considering I find it extremely boring and hard to feel engaged with. Even so, I did find one aspect of this book interesting and that is Nwoyes character. Nwoye is an emotional and unstable, in my opinion, boy that I want to see develop within this novel. I started to think heavily on moments where he discussing feeling something snap inside him and how that snapping could be him breaking away from tradition and family. This aspect is very fascinating to me, since it leaves you wondering if the young boy will change and develop and what will he do later on in the novel. This aspect of him maybe running away or even joining the opposing side of enemies within this novel has me intrigued. Nothing in this book has really caught my attention besides this, What did they exactly mean when they said he snapped? Will the author even stretch Nwoye’s storyline even more by making him maybe turn from his people to the land of the foreigners? The thing is I don’t know and that intrigues me, there are many different ways this author can go with Nwoyes story line so I’m excited to see where it leads. The only other thing that has possible interested me within this novel is the potential development of Okonkwo. Being such a hard headed and stubborn character I wonder if there will be opportunity for a change in him or is he just doomed to follow the same road he’s been leading. I’m overall in this book not very interested in the storyline or the culture, but find the potential development of such characters interesting and something I’m excited to see. Hopefully, the characters change for the better of the novel but I would also be very interested in seeing something happen to these characters, maybe even a death or tragedy. I guess I will have to read to find out.