Essay on Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart: Spiritual and Traditional A

Spiritual and Traditional Aspects of Things F every last(predicate) Apart Chinua Achebe describes in his book Things Fall Apart (1958) some interesting features of what life could sapidity like in an African village during late 19th century. The parliamentary procedure that the Nigerian author presents is in most ways considerably diametric from our western society of today. Life in the African village of Umuofia was, among some(prenominal) other things, sense of smellual and traditional. The spiritual aspect of life in Umuofia is well illustrated by the episode where Okonkwo and one of his wives finally have a nipper that does not die at a young age. After having had to deplete several of their children, Okonkwo and Ekwefi are told by a medicine man that all the children actually are one so-called ogbanje a child that repeatedly dies and returns to its mothers womb to be reborn. The parents are also told that it is most impossible to bring up an ogbanje without it dying u nless its iyi-uwa is first found and destroyed. An iyi-uwa is a special kind of stone which forms the link between the child and the spirit world. And so, aft...