Posts tagged ‘Things Fall Apart’

A Rewriting of the Ending of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Part – II

By Mosarrap H. Khan
While Okika is already setting up a strong argument for a battle with the emphasis on the word now, Okonkwo’s hasty decision to kill one of the messengers on the spot would appear unwarranted, howsoever he is aggrieved with the treatment at the hands of the messengers.

A Rewriting of the Ending of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Part – I

By Mosarrap Hossain Khan
I rewrote the ending of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). Okonkwo’s suicide at the end of the novel has always haunted me as I could not accept a heroic figure like him submitting so tamely.