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

Spiritual and Traditional Aspects of Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe describes in his criminal record Things Fall Apart (1958) some interesting features of what life could look handle in an African village during late 19th century. The society that the Nigerian author presents is in most ways considerably different from our westbound society of today. Life in the African village of Umuofia was, among many separate things, spiritual 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 child that does not die at a young age. After having had to bury some(prenominal) of their children, Okonkwo and Ekwefi are told by a medicine man that all the children truly are one so-called ogbanje a child that repeatedly dies and returns to its experiences womb to be reborn. The parents are also told that it is almost undoable to bring up an ogbanje without it dying unless its iyi-uwa is first found and destroyed. An iyi-uwa is a exceptional kind of stone which forms the link between the child and the spirit world. And so, aft...