Study Guide & Thoughtful Questions

I found a website that contained many information about the customs in Things Fall Apart. The website is an online study guide for Things Fall Apart. I found it very useful in explaining about the African culture. It also gives an overview of the characters (mainly Okonkwo and those related to him) There was also a section where it provide some discussion questions broken down for each chapter.

From this guide, I learn interesting facts on the African customs. I think the most interesting things in the study guide are the discussion questions. Questions like:

"How is awareness of rank observed in the drinking of the palm wine? Note that this chapter contains another proverb about proverbs. How does share-cropping work? What is the relationship of women to agriculture? Note that a customary way of committing suicide in this culture is hanging. How does Okonkwo react to 'the worst year in living memory?' " [Chapter Three]

Those types of question really gets you thinking and analyzing about the text.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html