Things Fall Apart and Related Readings

Things Fall Apart
The choice: traditional or alien culture?
novel by Chinua Achebe
The Second Coming
A vision of society’s breakdown
poem by William Butler Yeats
Genesis 22: 1-19
The Sacrifice of Isaac Father, son, and God’s will
the Bible
Mother Was a Great Man
The story of a strong Ibo woman
short story by Catherine
Obianuju Acholonu
Prayer to Masks
A promise of the masked spirits
poem by Leopold Sedar Senghor
Shooting an Elephant
The dirty work of empires
essay by George Orwell
The Significance of a Veteran’s Day
How to survive “progress”
poem by Simon Ortiz
Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog
An officer and his loving daughter
short story by Stephanie Vaughn
Exiles
Where can you go when you must go away?
poem by Mark Strand