Blog Post 6: Things Fall Apart, Chs. 1-7
In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe makes what is foreign to us seem familiar, and what is familiar to us seem foreign, by dropping us straight into Okonkwo's world and describing it in a way that someone from that world would understand it. In short, Achebe helps us to see a part of nineteenth-century Africa through the eyes of a local. That way of seeing the past touches on the key historical principle of empathy: to put ourselves in the shoes of others, to see past events as the people who lived through them would have seen them. At the very least, we seek to understand the perspective of another person before evaluating it. Answer 3 of the the following questions relating to the world told of in chapters 1-7. U se at least three specific pieces of information no one has yet used in their blog posts and at least six specific pieces of information total, with a page citation for each; also, use at least 300 words in your answer. 1) What parts of this society seem most fo