Things+Fall+Apart

=Check that no one used your quote alreadymedia type="custom" key="9052878"= = = = = = = = = = = = Chinua Achebe wrote __ Things Fall Apart __ in response to Joseph Conrad's book __ The Heart of Darkness. __ Accordi ng to Achebe, Conrad refuses to bestow "human expression" on Africans, even depriving them of language. Africa itself is rendered as "the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization", "a foil to Europe, as a place of negations at once remote and vaguely familiar, in comparison with which Europe's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest." Achebe could have written a novel that portrayed the missionaries and leaders of colonization as completely evil and the Africans as wholly good, but he didn’t just reverse Conrad’s image. What did Achebe decide instead? What message does the novel deliver? How do the different characters, dramatic foils, descriptions of the culture, word choice, and/or incorporation of proverbs create this message? = =Ignore:= Go to this Prezi, create an account so that you can use this free service, make a copy, retitle it with your names, and finish it!.