Things Fall Apart

Question 1

TFA PROTAGONIST

Answer 1

Okwonkwo

Question 2

TFA ANTAGONIST

Answer 2

Unoka (his shame and debt haunts okwonkwo)
He missionarie government officials (destroy their culture and turned their people from strong warriors to weak, passive people)

Question 3

TFA DYNAMIC

Answer 3

Okwonkwo because he recognizes his weaknesses and believes he must leave in order to survive. Changes in the sense that he was confident and strong and then became hopeless

Question 4

TFA STATIC

Answer 4

Some would say okwonkwo because he is still explosive, violent, and patriarchal at the end as well as beginning

Question 5

TFA ROUND

Answer 5

Okwonkwo: his motivations and behaviours are expressed in the novel
Ekwefi: ran away from home to be with okwonkwo

Question 6

TFA CHARACTERS

Answer 6

Ikemefuna, ezinma, nwoye, okwonkwo, mr. Brown, the district commissioner, obierika, ekwio, ojiugo, unoka

Question 7

TFA ANTIHERO

Answer 7

Okwonkwo

Question 8

TFA FLAT

Answer 8

Ezinma: female but the perfect son

Question 9

TFA SETTING

Answer 9

Umuofia & Mbanta villages of the Igbo tribe in Nigeria, 1900s

Pre- & post-European imperial era

Question 10

TFA POINT OF VEIW

Answer 10

Third person

Question 11

TFA TONE

Answer 11

The writing is pretty objective- readers decided for themselves how they feel about situations, characters

Question 12

TFA TRAGIC HERO

Answer 12

Nobility: he’s widely known, well respected, titles and wives
A reversal of fortune: accidentally shoots a guy, becomes an outcast;loves ikemefuna, has to kill him
Recognition: he realizes his flaws and decides he must leave his village
Tragic irony: once a powerful influential man and ends up having himself

Question 13

TFA TRAGIC FLAW

Answer 13

Fear of weakness and failure

Question 14

TFA THEMES

Answer 14

Tradition vs change
Religion
Gender