Question

In at least one hundred words, explain ostracism as a recurring theme in Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Answer 1

In “Things Fall Apart”, Okonkwo is banished from his village by his people. He is exiled from the world in which he grew up. Everything he has built, what he earned through hard work and effort remains now in the past. Now he must start again to recover the dignity he has lost.

Okonkwo feels out of place, and then leaves his village in search of returning to feel part of a society in another place.