Related GCSE Chinua Achebe: Vultures essays

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   Explain what the poem is about and how the poet conveys the emotions he ...

   This was probably because the mother remembers singing to him, when they were happy. From line 15: "act of no consequence..." Combing her son's hair would usually be something a mother wouldn't think twice about. They were probably quite well off before they were in this situation.

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   Vultures by Achebe is a very vivid and memorable poem. It has evocative images ...

   of people being cooked and burned, and it seems even more revolting as the reader probably visualises itself in the same situation. With this extremely inhuman scene the author originates a cruel image referred to Commandant, he is also shown as a very horrendous man when Achebe talks about the

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   To what extent do you feel that Achebe intends the reader to be sympathetic ...

   This incident also had a long-term effect on Okonkwo. From then on his family would look at him as if it were his fault that Ikemefuna is dead. This episode can be seen as an event where Okonkwo looses some faith from his family. This corresponds to Okonkwo loosing faith in his father.

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   Comparison Between "Vultures" and "What Were They Like?"

   Some of the sentences are also juxtaposed so nice things are put next to negative things or the opposite. This degrades the joy in a way: "laughter is bitter to the burned mouth" Laughter is a positive and nice word but it is put next to bitter which is a negative word.

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   Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and Chinualumogu Achebe's Things Fall Apart written within a century. ...

   Unlike Haggard's previously discussed perception implying the underestimated value of money, agriculture played an important role in supporting the polygamous household. The natives grew crops and also reared and tamed animals such as chicken and goats. Achebe's attitude discretely explains that the native society in the mid 19th century was

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   Do you agree that Achebe shows an "awareness of the human qualities common to ...

   He gains wealth and status and having an admirable personality, but the want for happiness leads to one fatal flaw bringing about the character's own destruction, usually resulting in death. Okonkwo begins life in his father's shadow, borrows yam seeds, plants them and is eventually able to have his own harvest.

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   Compare the ways in which poets present their ideas and attitudes in Vultures and ...

   Overall the poet's memories are saddening but not with anger. They are written in first person singular, as if by the slave but also as if we were the slave - seeing through their eyes.

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   Chinua Achebe's main concern in "Things Fall Apart" is to portray the effect white ...

   In chapter fourteen we get the first direct introduction to the colonialists. The story is a chilling one of how an entire village was destroyed for killing one white man. This shows the reader the brutality of the white colonists.