1. Racial Discrimination In Things Fall Apart Name : Jitendra V. Sumra Roll No. : 07 Semester : 04 Year : 2013 Paper No. : 402 Paper Name : The African Literature Dept Of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. He saw the world as a battlefield in which the children of light were locked in mortal conflict with the sons of darkness.According to Achebes greatest example of this binary logic isHe saw things as black and white. And black was evil.He spoke in his sermons about sheep and goats and about wheatand tares. He believed in slaying the prophets of Baal.

3. "Things Fall Apart," Achebe presents a different idea ofAfricans. They have families, religion, honors andtitles, music, economy, laws and a court system, complicatedfarming techniques, a tradition of wise sayings and the art ofconversation; on top of this, they successfully practice an un-autocratic style of communal living that Western societies longfor.

4. Achebe presents some of the same images of shadow that ageneral and natural fear of literal darkness and solitude. Byshowing Africans as also fearful of darkness. Achebe is not meaning to say that Ekwefi is gullible or easily scared; he means to say that in dark isolation, fear overcomes ones understanding of truth and humanity.

5. What Achebe suggests is recognizing Africans and this goes forall foreigners, including those of othernations, religions, genders, sexualinclinations, histories, economic backgrounds, politicalstatus, and over all everyone alien to the self as fundamentallyhuman with the multitude of complexities involved in that, andnot as some "us and them" abstraction.

6. This is Achebes criticism of Black and White" thought: that it is based on stories read blind and alone removed several degrees from reality. Achebe on the other hand comments that it is better to be together than to be right or maybe that unity is whats right. He criticizes Christianity not as something that is wrong, but as something that divides communities with its individual conversions.

7. Achebes criticism of We do not pray to have more money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its aching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him . . . A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

8. Okonkwo is a character with whom the reader is likely tounderstand the book - he is brutish, rude, scornful, proudand profoundly sexist - but in reading his story, one comesto sympathize with him at least a little, and one knows forgranted that he is a person.

9. Achebe relates the reasons behind individual andcommunal crises in a society in which warheroes, titled and wealthy subjects, and othercelebrated figures are dominantly male.

10. If you look carefully, the women were never really dealing alone with issues pertaining towomen, they were dealing with issues pertaining to society.

11. Achebe characterizes Umuofias women in the joys andtribulations of their motherhood and selects specificmoments of their lives to represent some of the mostmeaningful cultural and historical aspects of existence inIgbo communities .