Monday, September 11, 2017

Things Fall Apart Resources

Assignment for Wednesday, Sept. 13

Read Things Fall Apart, Chapters 5 and 6.
Write 3 quotes from the reading.  (To help fuel your comments later,
you might choose quotes that you have a strong emotional reaction to.)
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Things Fall Apart online

Chinua Achebe biography

Chinua Achebe on Nigeria & Africa 50 years later (video)

Premium Times Nigeria (Nigerian newspaper online)
The Guardian (Nigerian newspaper online)

William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"  (poem)

Gender Role Test (Take the test once for yourself.  If you have time, take it again for Okonkwo).
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre   
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . . . "
                        --from Yeats, "The Second Coming"

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