Controversial Idea of Banning The Book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Since the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe released in 1958, there were a lot of requests for banning ‘Things Fall Apart’ because of the critical elements about colonialism. Should the book be banned?

Officially saying the author didn’t intend this unproductive requests by giving out the explanation and expanding the idea of censorship into the book through non-fictional elements. This depicted the ideology which dealing with the portrayal of colonialism and the association of racism in each word he wrote. Chinua Achebe didn’t only equip for the reader to notice about how far civil rights had come and how they developed, but the way he organized the events and character’s point of view seemingly resulted in usefulness story for children. Because of this intention to educate the public about the dangers of colonialism, this book shouldn’t have ever been banned. Despite on trending to state and write about the dystopian world (reflecting the reality) in the past, readers easily concluded that authors mostly based on real appropriate issues to write, which could inform students on the way of historical people lived.

Evidence Against Banning the Book

Rich supplies on historical society included non-thinking actions and self-actions reclined on religion praxis. In consonance with the consequences reported by Pambazuka News, it said: “Colonized Africans were treated not only as sub-humans, but they were also denied basic rights such as education and the right to land for decent housing, farming, mining, and fishing. Colonial functionaries were honored for barbaric actions and atrocities. ” So, that was not a coincidence that the author of Africa Tomorrow, Edem Kodjo stated about the future condition of Africa: “torn away from his past, propelled into a universe fashioned from outside that suppresses his values, and dumbfounded by a cultural invasion that marginalizes him. The African is today the deformed image of others”. Probably knowing that reproducing many climaxes conceal behind the main ironic challenges, students further would gain valuable lessons from the ancestors’ frauds to the faults so that able to fix the ancestor’s problems. Things Fall Apart was the best consideration for children as its bitterness between races has long increased and kids’ reading this hatred only grew more for what happened to their people.

Allegorizing about the conflict between Ilbo society and the new Whites, the used of folktale ‘The Tortoise and The Birds’ announced the whole novel scenery. Metaphorical the images of ethnic people by birds by the description of many untrustworthy committed as to too light-heart believe in the evil compassion of whites. On the other hand, the greedy tortoise become a dictatorship that broke the rules in nature, it made it punishable appropriately. This lead to the conclusion that: “While this folktale works as an allegory for the colonization of African it also displays many truths of human existence. A prominent truth displayed in the folktale was the demonstration of what happens when one becomes too greedy. The tortoise who wanted more than those around him literally had a tragic fall due to his greed. While the tortoise became greedy about food, the concept of greed relates to other people in the novel. ” So in addition to expanding children imagination and their knowledge about world’s races, Chinua Achebe the author cleverly arranged the pure incidents of racism and missionary warfare so that children could absorb situations by associating with it. According to Quora reported about the book: “Though there are elements of British colonialism and the activities of the missionaries to convert African people, the writer portrayed it very well. The novel portrayed the price that people had to pay in a situation like ‘to-be or not-to-be…’, and it has a great impact on the story. ” Noticing to cover the banned elements of racism and portrayal colonialism, Applied of multi-sensory teaching plus anti-censored had formed up the suitable novel for any-ages civilians. For example, they learned by the powerful story with strong characters, great set of event, paced narration and a wonderful spirit for self-identity and self-respect.

Last but not least, the rational content by summarizing the book which readers are able to understand character’s emotions that could lead to variety studied of psychology. In history, people might analyze the corruption in term of a missionary which initiates people crazy and uncontrolled to themselves. Pursuant to ‘De-Scribing Empire: Post-Colonialism and Textuality’ by Chris Tiffin, Alan Lawson: “Colonized Africans were treated not only as sub-humans, but they were also denied basic rights such as education and the right to land for decent housing, farming, mining, and fishing. Colonial functionaries were honored for barbaric actions and atrocities” Pathos in the character’s senses of performing events based on specific sceneries, bouncing back the suitable native spirit to readers which studied of psychology could signify as understood. Indeed, personifications and emotions of enemy-kind and ally-kind expressed through the war of missionaries. Fear to be controlled or the glory gained from conquering both depicts enough psychos by different P. O. V. Here, Okwonko and his clan/nation faced the condition which was the shortage of inner-trusts included to all people. The condition resulted in the failure of defeated caused deaths and traditional lost. And also through these, psychological and behavioral aspects accurately described all aspects of science and society or learn about the general principles of a primitive society. In particular that identifying the causes of unconsciousness by following the meaningless rules.

Conclusion

Which enough shreds of evidence to deny the ban to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart such as to educate and censorship about sensitive topics of the book, offering to read giving to the students appropriately reasonable. Concluding that the given pieces of knowledge presented, brought the facilities for readers to commit to the outlaw world. African colonists were forced to follow the hybridity principles and were contrary to ethical principles and they couldn’t ignite or protest because then they may die. Nor arguing about the deviation of the white dictatorship of being too foolish in missionaries, greedy and cruelty. Informed the right of indicating racism and portrayal colonialism, and combine with the adopted of psychology introduction, the writer aspires to influence the society to read the novel and shift their thoughts from banning to step on the new level. After all, there were still real missionaries expeditions that present the gods as the model saint who controlled the indigenous people but not. So the story is a reminder of a world called Dystopian where students and kids could define the term of curious.