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Things Fall Apart - Symbols
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Things Fall Apart -
Symbolism
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Courtney Draper &
Iyanna Hamby
Folktales
Also in "Things Fall Apart", Ekwefi tells Ezinma the story of the tortoise and the birds. In this folktale, the tortoise tricks the birds into thinking he's completely harmless and not cunning, like he used to be. Then the birds were deceived by his lies, and ended up tricking him, and he broke his shell. This also symbolizes when the white settlers arrived in their African village. They were deceived by the settlers into thinking that they were harmless, but the white settlers did everything in their power to convert the tribe to Christianity. Folktales were also a symbol of weakness and femininity to a male, in his household.
Yams
In "Things Fall Apart" yams also played and important role throughout the novel. They were important to all the characters of the village. Men grew yams to gain wealth and a higher social class in the village; it showed that he could also provide for his family. It was the symbol of the power and wealth of a man, and how he was the bread winner of his family.
Locusts
In "Things Fall Apart", locusts come to Umuofia and were welcomed by the villagers. When they arrived, villagers, saw that the locusts were harmless, so they just simply ate them. Achebe uses this moment in the book to symbolize in reference to when the white settlers were welcomed in the African villages and sought as harmless, but really contributed to the destruction of the "things that fell apart" in Umuofia, which is where the title "Things Fall Apart" came from.