Setting

The setting in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart is very important to the story. The novel, which takes place in the 1890’s portrays the clash between Nigeria’s eastern white colonial government and Okonkwo’s Igbo tribe. There are nine villages within the Igbo ethnic group of Umuofia, Nigeria. Umuofia is a very strong, skillful, and traditional clan. Things Falls Apart is a novel filled with many setting based themes:

1. Cultures are continuously changing and adapting in order to succeed.
2. Language is a symbol that defines cultural and setting differences.
3. Each culture’s view can be narrow minded and limited yet each culture or location can benefit from one another.