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The ending paragraph is absolutely incredible and sort of reflects on how the book treats colonialism. Like, treating this as fiction you have a normal story for 70% of it and then suddenly English people arrive and the story completely changes. Okonkwo stops being an active subject and becomes an acted-upon object. It's someone else's story now, one he is not allowed to understand. The final paragraph says this very explicitly, becoming a (small) part of the district commissioner's book. It's a
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Fascinating for its depiction of late-19th century Ibo culture, and, in the last quarter of the book, that culture's contact with British colonialism. But Achebe as writer does much more telling here than showing, which kept me from getting as engaged in the story and characters as I wanted to -- they were *many* interesting scenes and conflicts that I wish had been given more concrete, expanded looks. This was not a problem for me at all in Achebe's excellent Anthills of the Savannah, so I ...more
Fascinating for its depiction of late-19th century Ibo culture, and, in the last quarter of the book, that culture's contact with British colonialism. But Achebe as writer does much more telling here than showing, which kept me from getting as engaged in the story and characters as I wanted to -- they were *many* interesting scenes and conflicts that I wish had been given more concrete, expanded looks. This was not a problem for me at all in Achebe's excellent Anthills of the Savannah, so I ...more
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