Things Fall Apart
Read a novel from this approved book list, and write a 1 page response for extra credit.
HUM332
Prof. Frew
BOOK LIST: OPTIONAL NOVELS TO READ FOR ADDED CREDIT
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening and selected stories.
Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Dickens, Charles. Hard Times.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Gaiman, Neil. American Gods.
Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman. (graphic novel)
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake.
Lethem, Jonathan. Fortress of Solitude.
Lindqvist, John Ajvide. Let the Right One In.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road.
McEwan, Ian. Atonement.
Miller, Frank. The Dark Night Returns. (graphic novel)
Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas.
O’Brien. The Things They Carried.
Portis, Charles. True Grit.
Santiago, Ismeralda. When I was Puerto Rican.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus. (graphic novel)
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
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Things Fall Apart
Set in the pre- colonial Nigeria, the novel depicts the clash between colonialism and traditional culture. The protagonist, Okonkwo is hardworking and strives to show no weakness. He wants to dispel the tainted legacy of his father of being cheap and cowardly.
Because of the great esteem in which the village holds him, Okonkwo is selected by the elders to be the guardian of Ikemefuna, a boy taken by the village as a peace settlement between Umuofia and another village after Ikemefuna’s father killed an Umuofian woman. The boy lives with Okonkwo’s family and he considers him a second father. Later when the elders of Umofia decides that the boy must be killed, Ezeudu the oldest man in the village warns……………….
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