Things Fall Apart Literature Analysis
The film is based on Chinua Achebe’s novel by the same name released in 1958. The first scene presents Okonkwo, who is the main character of the movie, waking up earlier than his wife and wonders why the wife is still asleep.
Okonkwo has won his respect as a leader in the village because he is an established farmer and wrestler. He later takes in a child by the name Ikemefuna whom he adopts as his son. Both Okonkwo and his blood son Nwoye grow fond of Ikemefuna.
However, years later the Oracle demands that Ikemefuna is killed as a sacrifice and Okonkwo participates, an act that alienated him from Nwoye.
Okonkwo kills a boy and as punishment, he is exiled for seven years and goes to his motherland. In exile, he gets to learn about the white missionaries and how they were slowly converting the Igbo people.
