The Writing Style of Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart

Achebe says, “There is no story that is not true.” People tell a story for a great reason, the reason to share with the world to people, to understand what they are feeling deep inside them. Even if the story isn’t accurate, it may be a myth or a legend that could teach the reader an important lesson. The Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe tells the story of the tragic fall of the protagonist, Okonkwo, and the Igbo culture. Okonkwo is a respected and influential leader but everything has to have an end to it. Okonkwo changes into a coward man and killed himself at the end of the book.

The author, Achebe, shows us that there is more meaning to a story than the outside shell of it, his words show the reader a powerful meaning in his text. A text that can penetrate and throw our feelings with emotional and confusing feeling in the reader's mind. Achebe's writing has given us the point of view of the character, the tone, the structure, and the figurative language of the writing, All of this in Achebe's writing gives the reader the reason to understand more context of the text.

The point of view gives the story the view of a character in the story, Achebe gives the reader the view of a character that can lead us to throw out the story from the beginning to the end of the story. It gives us the perspective of character view, Achebe's writing of the protagonist gives the view of them and the detail of the path to which they walk on, throw out the story. Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart from a third-person perspective, which means that the narrator is the voice of all the character voice who knows everything. This gives him more of a free writing style, to which he can write whatever he wants, but he chooses to write the truth from the Igbo culture's point of view.

The tone of Achebe's writing style is generally objective, which means that Achebe presents us with a clear and straightforward to the event of the story. The tone that Achebe presents a view of complex to the story filled with supports the Igbo social, religious, and living habits. This gives the reader to understand more about the culture and have a connection between them, with similarities and differences. The objective tone of Things Fall Apart gives the reader to make their own judgments about the characters and their actions. Achebe portrays the characters in events with complexity in it, which can let the reader judge them more freely with their thoughts in each and every event that Achebe has provided for the reader.

The structure of Achebe's writing is very different from the other writer, he breaks down the different parts of the book, and each part has its own importance and meaning. He breaks it into parts to explain to the reader what to understand and not to, he has given the reader to experience the culture of the Igbo, then the scene switches to a different plot of the story with new information to the reader. Achebe has created such writing with a well-constructed paragraph to present to the reader, each section has its own meaning to it, and each of it can show the reader a better understanding of the text and is well known to the character and the interaction that they come by.

Achebe uses figurative language like metaphors and similes to compare the characters in the story, to describe the character and the movement of action they make in the story. He uses figurative language to enhance the emotional significance of the text, which makes the reader have the same emotions as the protagonist. There are many different types of figurative language that Achebe uses in his writing to make his writing pop out to the reader’s mind and this can lead the story to a whole different story.

Overall, Achebe's writing in Things Fall Apart gives the reader to accurately appreciate the powerful words and the true background of the Igbo people, and that should be more special than it already was. We all can identify his writing as more complex but simple at the same time to the reader’s mind.