Things Fall Apart

I have found Chinua Achebe's book "Things Fall Apart," to be a nice departure from all of our previous readings because it is more like what I've been used to reading in my English courses. Although the form of the literature may be different from what we've had previously, it fits in to the other works's ideas of tradition. "Things Fall Apart" looks at how this culture is at the verge of change and how each of the various characters are reacting to that said change. Okonkwo for example, is resisting the culture's changes from the traditional to the new because he is dependent on his societal status and feels that these changes may hinder that status. This idea brings us back to past readings of how literature continues to move from the traditional to the more abstract and new ways of thinking and looking at literature as a form.