In about two hundred words, discuss how achebe uses imagery in things fall apart. provide details from the novel to support your response.

In Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart. Achebe uses  animal imagery to enhance his descriptions and help describe aspects of human life. For instance, when he describes himself as 'The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.' He shows that he has had to  provide for himself, without any help from others. This imagery is also present in the stories that the Igbo mothers tell their children. For example, story of Tortoise's shell. The story describes why it looks the way it does after its encounters with the birds.

Nature imagery is also used in the novel. This includes the weather in general When Okonkwo experienced a terrible harvest year, the drought was described as 'The blazing sun returned, more fierce than it had ever been known, and scorched all the green that had appeared with the rains. The earth burned like hot coals and roasted all the yams that had been sown. 'The intensity of the imagery makes the reader feel every aspect to the situation.

Achebe ueses lots of imagery in his novel Things Fall Apart to help the readers feel like they are a part of the story. A really good example of a way that Achebe uses imagery in the story is through the traditional stories that the mothers tell the children. The story of the birds and the tortise uses imagery and describes the reason a tortise looks the way it does. Achebe uses very strong imagery that allows the reader to feel as though they are experiencing the story. "At last the rain came. It was tramendous. For two or three moons the sun had been gathering strength till it seemed to breath a breath of fire on the earth. All the grass had long been scorched brown, and the sands felt like live coals to the feet. Evergreen trees wore a dusty coat of brown. The birds were silenced in the forest, and the world lay panting under the live, vibrating heat. And then came the clap of thunder. It was an angry, metallic and thirsty clap, unlike the deep liquid rumbling of the rainy season. A mighty wind arose and filled the air with dust. Palm trees swayed as the wind combed their leaves into flying crests like strange and fantastic coiffure." This is an expertly written paragraph from Achebe's novel and it is so real feeling, because of his imagery, that the reader feels turmoil as if they were there in the moment being afflicted by the tosssing of the wind and dust.

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the play romeo and juliet was one of the most famous love tragedies ever written. this love story unfortunately had a fatal ending. many people argue over why the lovers had died, was it over free will or fate?  

the death of romeo and juliet was partially because of free will. the fact that romeo and juliet got married knowing that there was a bitter feud between their families, the montague and capulet’s. this feud brought on many problems, such as the murder of tybalt by romeo. juliet knew that this might be a problem for her and romeo. juliet had said: “what’s in a name”? which explains her ill fate of being a capulet and romeo being a montague. when romeo tells his servant “ ay, mine own…show more content…

i believe they had died over the love they had for each other, strong enough that their lives could end so suddenly if something horrible had come between them, and that was exactly how it happened. this tragedy occurred within five days of the two meeting, they experienced love at first sight, got married and quickly were dead. free will became a part of this when juliet decided to take friar laurence’s advise in inhaling a potion that will make people assume she is died but will awake in 42 hours prier to when she took it. when romeo had heard the news that juliet was dead, he assumed it was true, and responded with the line; “well juliet, i will lay with thee tonight”. to me this line indicated how he feels for juliet by dying in her will. the fact that free will didn’t take control of the story; it left fate to be the murder of the lovers. fate first kicked in when their eyes met at the capulet party. when romeo and juliet spoke, their words had powerful contentment; they had such a strong feeling for one another that they could lay in each other’s arms forever. their happiness didn’t last long; there were many reasons for this, for example; the marriage lord capulet arranged between paris and juliet. i believe that the plot of the play thus far leads the audience to believe that the deaths were a result of fate. the last act will determine once and for all if it is fate or free will. romeo again challenges fate.

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