PPT-Proverbs and Fables of Things Fall Apart

Tuesday January 19th Warm up Date Describe your favorite childrens story What was it about Why did you like it Targets To understand how and why Achebe uses proverbs in Things Fall Apart. . as Part of a Holistic Curriculum. Eve Judith Eisenberg, IU-Bloomington, English. Overview. Things Fall Apart. Context and Plot summary. Major themes/points of interest for students. Pitfalls of teaching . Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart. by Chinua Achebe. Written: . 1959. , Nigeria. 3. rd. person omniscient point . of . view. Setting: . 1890s in.  Lower Nigerian villages. , especially . Iguedo. Conflicts. by Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe remains the most read African author in . the world. . Things Fall Apart. enormously successful first novel, published in 1958. has sold millions of copies and has been . What are Fables?. “a short story, typically animals as characters, conveying a moral”. 4 characteristics: Allegory, Moral or Lesson, Personification, and Illustration of Human Characteristics. Aesop’s Fables are . A story that teaches a lesson.. Fables often have animal characters that talk and act like people.. FABLES. THE TORTISE AND THE HARE . THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF. Incorruptible Things Incorruptible Things Incorruptible Things Incorruptible Things Barnes Hands to the Plow Ministries with. Bethlehem College & Seminary. Jason S. DeRouchie, PhD. Proverbs at . a . Glance. Preamble. 1:1–7. Prologue: The importance. of wisdom. 1:8–9:18. Proverbial Collections. Barbara Leung Lai. “The Lord’s Blessing is upon the House of the. Righteous, and His Cursing is upon the House of the Wicked” (3:33)—A huge Gap between the ‘Then’ and ‘Now’?. I. Approaching Proverbs: 7 key Interpretive Orientations. Wisdom Literature . The attempt to cope with reality as it presents itself in real life . (i.e. contradictions!). Prov. 26:4 . Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.. Fables. Definition. : A brief story that sets forth some pointed statement of truth. Origin. : Found in almost every country. Handed down from generation to generation as oral literature. Content. : Usually contains incidents that relate to the unusual, sometimes supernatural. Please copy into the Class Notes section of your notebook.. Allegory = the . l. iterary . f. orm . of . Lord of the Flies. The . literary form of the . animal fable. has been used for centuries. . Animal fables are short stories that teach a moral lesson. They include animals that often talk and act like humans. (Ex: Aesop’s fables). an overview. Things Fall Apart. By Chinua Achebe. Nigerian. Written in 1958.. Set in the 1890s, with the arrival of the first Europeans among the Igbo people.. Brilliantly constructed. Recipient . of . Chinua Achebe - Goodreads. Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. List. Phaedrus’ Fables. A fable is a story in which . animals. speak and act like human beings.. Usually the fable illustrates a . moral. .. The most famous writer of fables was the Greek writer, .