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Prompt: The personal history of an author can have a significant influence on the way meaning is constructed in his/her writing. Comment on specific instances of such influence in Things Fall Apart.

 Achebe’s cultural cross road of Igbo tradition and the Christian religion has majorly influenced the novel "Things Fall Apart" since Achebe represented both cultures and both religions in a neutral single eye in order to showcase the strengths and limitations of each being present under one strand. Chinua Achebe wrote the post-colonial novel of ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1958 in order to teach other Africans that their past was neither so savage nor benighted as the colonisers made then believe it to be. His purpose by portraying both sides is to persuade a combination of both and show how one can affect the others existence. Achebe also demonstrates the need for flexibility and duality with the Nigerian independence and represents this throughout Okonkwo, the protagonist, whose tragic flaw is his hyper-masculinity hence his inability to display femininity, which stemmed from his father’s incapability to have a legacy as a dominate masculine male in the area they lived in. Achebe’s combination of both the Christian religion and being raised with Igbo tradition in the novel truly influences his meaning of the different scenes throughout the novel because of the importance of being flexible and balanced with both sides at the same time hence showcasing the Igbo people as neither barbaric or uncivilised people. 

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