If One Finger Brought Oil - Things Fall Apart Part 1: Crash Course Literature 208
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Isaac
African society is built on norms and customs that have devine backing. If you are examining African society do not forget that in Africa we have never had the age of reason. There was no evolution from blind faith to questioning things like Nietzsche's God is dead. No African literature has attempted to actually engage spirituality as it is and questioned the unknown that is not supposed to be known. We have not egaged in cultural revolution but rather cultural eradication. Education doesn't inform culture so that it can evolve into something better. Education just attempts to replace culture.
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African society is built on norms and customs that have devine backing. If you are examining African society do not forget that in Africa we have never had the age of reason. There was no evolution from blind faith to questioning things like Nietzsche's God is dead. No African literature has attempted to actually engage spirituality as it is and questioned the unknown that is not supposed to be known. We have not egaged in cultural revolution but rather cultural eradication. Education doesn't inform culture so that it can evolve into something better. Education just attempts to replace culture.
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Faranak
Dear Mr. Green
I happen to enjoy very much your series not only on western literature, but quite on the international one. I ask you sincerely as an Iranian to do an episode on a beloved persian literature, the novel: My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad. The
Other literary jewel we hold dear is: The book of kings by Abolghasem Ferdowsi which is known to preserve the persian language after the arab conquest of Persia.
We'd very much appreciate it.
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Dear Mr. Green
I happen to enjoy very much your series not only on western literature, but quite on the international one. I ask you sincerely as an Iranian to do an episode on a beloved persian literature, the novel: My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad. The
Other literary jewel we hold dear is: The book of kings by Abolghasem Ferdowsi which is known to preserve the persian language after the arab conquest of Persia.
We'd very much appreciate it.
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Rex
I raise my cup of palm wine to you Mr. Green. Happy you have counted my brother Chinua among the giants. The book is really great, notice how Okonkwo's friend was a deep thinker? He predicted the future when he told Okonkwo that he might come to grief for killing Ikemefuna. Ikemefuna means ''May my strength not be wasted or may I never be weak'' by the way. I pray you grow from strength to strength. Please keep the videos coming.
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I raise my cup of palm wine to you Mr. Green. Happy you have counted my brother Chinua among the giants. The book is really great, notice how Okonkwo's friend was a deep thinker? He predicted the future when he told Okonkwo that he might come to grief for killing Ikemefuna. Ikemefuna means ''May my strength not be wasted or may I never be weak'' by the way. I pray you grow from strength to strength. Please keep the videos coming.
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Patrick
Chinua Achebe was a great Igbo man that portrayed our Igbo culture well in his internationally recognized book -THINGS FALL APART-. I read -Things Fall Apart- from the first page to the end over and over again. -Things Fall Apart- was intelligently and skillfully written by Chinua Achebe; the Author of great repute. The late Achebe left a good legacy that will make the world remember him for a long time.
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Chinua Achebe was a great Igbo man that portrayed our Igbo culture well in his internationally recognized book -THINGS FALL APART-. I read -Things Fall Apart- from the first page to the end over and over again. -Things Fall Apart- was intelligently and skillfully written by Chinua Achebe; the Author of great repute. The late Achebe left a good legacy that will make the world remember him for a long time.
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Ravenn
I read this book once before after getting it from the school library, and I never really got the point of the story until now. It just seemed like there was no growth, but now I realize there was character development in the story, and it was from becoming bad to even worse. And the whole point was to realize not to become Okwonko in our own lives, no matter how real and relatable he can be sometimes.
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I read this book once before after getting it from the school library, and I never really got the point of the story until now. It just seemed like there was no growth, but now I realize there was character development in the story, and it was from becoming bad to even worse. And the whole point was to realize not to become Okwonko in our own lives, no matter how real and relatable he can be sometimes.
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sandra
things fall apart, to me, is a perfect novel. it okonkwo is ruled by fear, and that is a strong part of what destroys him. but he is also a man caught in a changign world when all he knows is power and stability. maybe the next video will look into okonkwo's fears. and his son joining the missionaries is a real tragedy for him so he does take it very hard
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things fall apart, to me, is a perfect novel. it okonkwo is ruled by fear, and that is a strong part of what destroys him. but he is also a man caught in a changign world when all he knows is power and stability. maybe the next video will look into okonkwo's fears. and his son joining the missionaries is a real tragedy for him so he does take it very hard
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education
This was one of my favorite readings in high school. After watching your analysis of this work (and several others, I feel disappointed that the treatment of the literature parts of English class was just so shallow in my high school. Well, an in-depth analysis would've flown over my then 13 year old head though, so I can't complain.
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This was one of my favorite readings in high school. After watching your analysis of this work (and several others, I feel disappointed that the treatment of the literature parts of English class was just so shallow in my high school. Well, an in-depth analysis would've flown over my then 13 year old head though, so I can't complain.
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education
FYI: IGBO-S HAVE NEVER KILLED TWINS! Not everything in the book is true depiction of the ancient igbo culture. However Achebe was a great genius of literature and may his soul Rest In Peace
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FYI: IGBO-S HAVE NEVER KILLED TWINS! Not everything in the book is true depiction of the ancient igbo culture. However Achebe was a great genius of literature and may his soul Rest In Peace
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Marwan
God I love this book. Even though there was not a single moment in this book where i did not want to stab Okonkwo in his skull, his motivation and action felt real.
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God I love this book. Even though there was not a single moment in this book where i did not want to stab Okonkwo in his skull, his motivation and action felt real.
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