Thomas C. Foster's How To Read Literature Like A Professor, By Chinua Achebe

Some may argue that all pieces of literature can be related to one of Thomas C. Foster’s chapters in his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, in which Foster analyzes varying ways of looking at and connecting literature pieces. The novel Things Fall Apart by the venerable and eminent Chinua Achebe is a good example to how a piece of literature can be related to Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor or HTRLLAP. Specifically, Achebe’s Things Fall Apart can be correlated directly to Foster’s chapter 6 “...or the Bible” which explains how many works of literature echo ideas and stories from the Bible itself, which in this case is Things Fall Apart echoing the The Revelation or commonly known as the Apocalypse. Achebe’s Things …show more content…
He probably is so upset by his sons change and betrayal due to him trying his very hardest throughout life to be a good father, unlike his own, and Nwoye’s betrayal signifies his failure to raise a strong traditional son making him look weak in the village he prides himself on looking strong …show more content…
These traditions are like a double edged sword, for he loves and pushes for tradition to stay through the European Influence, but these very traditions also hurt Okonkwo by making his life arduous. It is tradition that got Okonkwo banished from Umuofia for seven years, it is tradition that got his adopted son Ikemefuna killed, and it is the inconceivable loss of his culture he loved and had pride in that got himself killed(61, 124, 207 Achebe). Therefore, it can argued that the very thing he was trying to protect was the cause of his own