Community and Individual in Things Fall Apart
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A five page paper which analyses the interrelationship between community and individual in Chinua Achebe’s novel of nineteenth-century Africa, Things Fall Apart. The writer looks at the way in which the protagonist’s decline and eventual demise mirror the collapse of his community, and how the flaws of the individual are reflected in the flaws of the society, and are, in the end, fatal to both. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JLachebe.wps

Comparative Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s “Marriage is a Private Affair” and Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”
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A 5 page paper which examines the conflict each story’s characters face between remaining loyal to their cultural customs and seeking out the contemporary urban world, the choices and sacrifices each must make, as well as their consequences. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGachale.rtf

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease
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In five pages this paper provides a comparative character analysis of similarities in terms of how both Olunde and Obi are caught between cultures and how their stories end tragically, differences in circumstances, feeling, and meaning, and how these differences imply different political and cultural situational differences in Nigeria presented by the authors. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
Filename: TGolundobi.rtf

Comparing Three African Writers
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A 1 page discussion that briefly examines three contemporary African writers. The writer argues that the perspective offered by Mariana Ba in So Long the Letter and also Sembene Ousmane in God's Bits of Wood differs from that of V.Y. Mudimbe in The Rift. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: 99bamuou.rtf

Cry, the Beloved Country – Two Fathers Come Together
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Cry, the Beloved Country – Two Fathers Come Together: This 7-page comparative essay examines Alan Paton’s divergent patriarchs, Stephen Kumalo and James Jarvis in Cry, the Beloved Country. The specific events in the novel that ultimately cause them to change are enveloped in the related loss of their sons, their subsequent relationship and the self-revelatory journey each takes while trying to understand the enigmatic behavior of his own child. Bibliography lists 1 source. SNPaton1.doc
Filename: SNPaton1.doc

Cultural Change in Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”
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A five page paper analyzing Chinua Achebe’s novel from a cultural perspective. The paper holds that while the protagonist Okonkwo is clearly meant to represent the Ibo people under the thumb of British imperialism, Okonkwo really “falls apart” because he is unable to change. No additional sources.
Filename: KBacheb2.wps

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