In what ways does this text influence your understanding of Achebe’s use of language and stylistic choices in Things Fall Apart?
In the excerpt from Ngugi's essay he presents us with the great importance of language and the role it plays in our community and the cohesive nature it plays in society. He recollects his childhood and the "norm" for Africans, and how the language was ingrained into their communities and the massive role it played in the day to day of the individuals. He proceeds to depict the gradual colonization of education by the English through western influences and control, He describes how he loses his mother tongue because of the disruption of his life by losing the use of it in his formal education.
In regards to the development in my interpretation of Things Fall Apart I believe that have gathered another great resource in the comprehension on the reasons for loss of self and community in Okonkwo and other Igbo. Knowing how a member of a colonized community viewed the change and how the responded to it is allowing me to use assumptions through deductive reasoning seeing a event and formulating the theory that the western culture systematically destroyed the communities of Nigeria and northern Africa through the degradation of the communities using the English language.
In conclusion I now understand to the extent of which the communities of the Igbo culture was affected and thus forever tainted by the English language.
