Essay on Images of Africans in Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness

Images of Africans in Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness   In my sound outing of Things Fall Apart, it has better informed me of a culture that I did not know of before, and by reading it helped correct some bountiful misconceptions that I previously held of the populate and their cultures of Africa. Reading the novel also gave me some other perspective on the effects of imperialism/colonialism by the Europeans on the Africans. I remember Achebe has succeeded in enabling the West an opportunity to have them take heed to the worn (Achebe interview), but whether or not Western society decides to listen depart come down to the individual within the society--if they do choose to listen to the foreknow of the weak. In this essay I will shargon realizations that I gained by reading Achebes novel, and how I came to view the people of the Igbo and Africa and not so different as I had thought before. The distinct writing port that Achebe used to narrate his novel led me, as the reader, to feel as if I were a fellow tribes spell of the Igbo people. This differing perspective, rather than being an outsider looking at in on the people, led me to enchant that the Igbos are a people with strong beliefs, culture, and identity. An example of their identity is the description of one of their dwellings, more specifically of Okonkwos compound it is described as a large compound wrap by a thick wall of red earth and we read further on about the barn for Okonkwos yams and the shed for his goats (1429). The Igbo people are obviously agrarian, and led me to the question, how different are they from us? My answer is, thither are not a lot of differenes. Based upon my experience--my father was embossed on a farm--I see stark similarities between us and them... ...people of Umuofia could not have forecasted, with the exception of the oracle, that they would have fallen due to the white man and his religion, but I believe we can derive a orthodontic braces of reasons why they fell and apply it to our own society. In conclusion, I in truth enjoyed Achebes novel and liked the contrast between it and Conrads work of Heart of Darkness. I believe there are times that, in order to see the extremes of something, you must contrast it to its opposite extreme. As a former top of beliefs on colonialism and those who proselytize their religion onto others, I realize now the august impact those acts can have on a naive or vulnerable culture, and I now disagree with those practices. Finally, I heed the call of the weak for I hear the quiet but powerful spokesperson that says, We are a people too... and I know the truth of the meaning