Things Fall Apart is a novel that is written by Chinua Achebe, and it talks about the traditions of the Umuofia clan. It includse some Ritual etiquette between the host and the guest in which the host and the guest pass a kola nut between each other till the nut is broken by the host .The breaking of the kola nut represents the tradition of honoring of gods and ancestors by the hoost
Explanation:
chi is called the personal god,the tribe belive that if a person experiences misfortune he has a bad chi.
Okonkwo the main character of the novel is a well -respected member of the Umuofia clan. The character of okonkwo is represented as stern and powerfu.His greatest fear is that he does not want to become like his father whom he considered to be lazy,and cowardly. Okonkwo always felt that his father has feminine characteristics.This fear has an adverse impact on the Okonkwo’s behavior and personality. His relationship with his family is more like a dictator.
In other words the character of Okonkwo is based on the ideas of normative Igbo on the masculinity
