Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe's novel, "Things Fall Apart," is a well written narrative about the Ibo community in Nigeria, Africa. Achebe took the title of the novel from a poem called "The Second Coming," by W.B. Yeats. It appears that Yeats is making some judgement on the European way of thinking that was so greatly affecting the rest of the world at the time. The poem describes human flaws resulting in social collapse. …showed first 75 words of 562 total…

…showed last 75 words of 562 total…flaws just as he treats the British characters. His main character Okonkwo was lead to his own destruction because of his flaw, as did the town of Umuofia, that could not withstand against the imperialists. Achebe allows himself to be just as critical about the Ibo culture as he is of the colonizers. He is not trying to ideallize or honor his people for anything more than they were. He simply illustrates who they were.