Cheikh Hamidou Kane/Ambiguous Adventure
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A 6 page research paper/essay that discusses Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, a novel that traces the coming of age of Samba Diallo, a member of the Diallobe tribal aristocracy who is considered by this elders to be his people’s best hope for a spiritual leader. As this suggests, this novel addresses a decisive moment in the colonial conquest of Africa, as Samba’s story encompasses the all-important theme of cultural assimilation and how an African people can retain their own identity in the face of Western dominance. Close analysis of Kane’s novel demonstrates how the structure and the character development serve to complement this overall theme. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart": Tragic Hero
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5 pages in length. As the protagonist of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," Okonkwo ultimately ends up as the tragic hero as a direct result of his inability to alter the course of his life. Defining this particular concept calls for one's close interpretation of what the protagonist's role truly represents; with that, it becomes quite simple to understand how the lead character can so easily slip into the tragic state he eventually inhabits. Through his difficult and sometimes life-changing experiences, Okonkwo comes to recognize what it is his own self-knowledge has gained through his struggles. No additional sources cited.
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Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart': Heroism
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5 pages in length. One can reasonably assert that there existed a sequence of social change as a means by which to describe the impact of the intrusive European culture upon the indigenous culture of Umuofia. Having viewed Umuofia's culture as tending to be relatively stationary as well as harboring unstable equilibrium, one can explain the validity of such a statement by describing various events of social heroism that occur in the novel which can effectively justify its truth. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Chinua Achebe/ 'Things Fall Apart'
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A 5 page analysis, + a 1 page outline of that analysis, of Chinua Achebe's novel of Nigerian colonialism, 'Things Fall Apart.' The writer argues that Achebe's novel demonstrates that the Igbo culture shared many of the faults of the invading British and that this is demonstrated through the characterization of the protagonist of the book, Okonkwo. No additional sources cited.
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Chinua Achebe/Anthills of the Savannah
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A 5 page essay that offers a synopsis and analysis of Chinua Achebe's novel Anthills of the Savannah (1987). The writer also discusses the major themes. No additional sources cited.
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Chinua Achebe/Dead Men's Path
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An 8 page essay that addresses this short story by Achebe. Roughly the first three pages of this paper are a research proposal that discusses the essay and what it will address. The remainder of the paper is the essay which looks at Achebe's short story "Dead Men's Path," which tells the narrative of a young, diligent educator, Michael Obi, who is appointed to be headmaster at Ndume Central School. Examination of this story shows the influence that Western, so-called "modern ideas" have had on Obi, which demonstrates the influence of colonialism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Chinua Achebe/women in Umuofian Society
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A 6 page essay that discusses what can be inferred about the position of women in Umuofian culture based on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. No additional sources cited.
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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and a Revaluation of Values
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This 7 page report discusses Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel about a village in pre-colonial Nigeria. The concept of things falling apart in “Things Fall Apart” comes from the many ways in which the life of the main character, Okonkwo, changes in ways he is powerless to understand. “Things” are simply not the way Okonkwo believes they should be and they certainly are not the way they were in the “good ol’ days.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Cloud Nine; Post Colonial Theory Portrayed Through Gender Repression
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This 9 page paper considers the role of gender and race in Caryl Churchill's play 'Cloud Nine'. This play uses disruptive gender performances to illustrate the way in society has repressed and enforced its ideals on those who should have bee free to develop without the interference of pressurised expectations and enforced social perceptions. The parallels between gender repression and the effects of post colonialism are explored and illustrated with numerous quotes form the play. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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Common Reality in “A Walk in the Night”
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This 5 page paper discusses the commonalities among several characters in the story, “A Walk in the Night” by South African writer Alex La Guma. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Community and Individual in Things Fall Apart
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A five page paper which analyses the interrelationship between community and individual in Chinua Achebe’s novel of nineteenth-century Africa, Things Fall Apart. The writer looks at the way in which the protagonist’s decline and eventual demise mirror the collapse of his community, and how the flaws of the individual are reflected in the flaws of the society, and are, in the end, fatal to both. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Comparative Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s “Marriage is a Private Affair” and Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”
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A 5 page paper which examines the conflict each story’s characters face between remaining loyal to their cultural customs and seeking out the contemporary urban world, the choices and sacrifices each must make, as well as their consequences. No additional sources are used.
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Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease
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In five pages this paper provides a comparative character analysis of similarities in terms of how both Olunde and Obi are caught between cultures and how their stories end tragically, differences in circumstances, feeling, and meaning, and how these differences imply different political and cultural situational differences in Nigeria presented by the authors. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Comparing Three African Writers
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A 1 page discussion that briefly examines three contemporary African writers. The writer argues that the perspective offered by Mariana Ba in So Long the Letter and also Sembene Ousmane in God's Bits of Wood differs from that of V.Y. Mudimbe in The Rift. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Cry, the Beloved Country – Two Fathers Come Together
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Cry, the Beloved Country – Two Fathers Come Together: This 7-page comparative essay examines Alan Paton’s divergent patriarchs, Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis in Cry, the Beloved Country. The specific events in the novel that ultimately cause them to change are enveloped in the related loss of their sons, their subsequent relationship and the self-revelatory journey each takes while trying to understand the enigmatic behavior of his own child. Bibliography lists 1 source. SNPaton1.doc
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Cultural Change in Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”
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A five page paper analyzing Chinua Achebe’s novel from a cultural perspective. The paper holds that while the protagonist Okonkwo is clearly meant to represent the Ibo people under the thumb of British imperialism, Okonkwo really “falls apart” because he is unable to change. No additional sources.
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Death in Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and “Morrison’s “Beloved”
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A 7 page paper which examines the theme of death in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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