Answer
Chinua Achebe uses foreshadowing to develop theme in Things Fall Apart in the following area;
• In chapter 1,the writer foreshadows Ikemefuna’s death
• In chapter 2, when Okonkwo returns home from Mbaino,Ikemefuna’s fate is mentioned as “sad story”
Explanation
The writer in chapter 1 foreshadows the death of Ikemefuna by calling him a ‘doomed lad” who is “ill-fated”. In chapter 2, Ikemefuna and Okonkwo return home from a place called Mbaino.Here the writer foreshadows the death/fate to befall Ikemefuna by mentioning that Ikemefuna’s “sad story” is still told to that day in Umuofia.This can give the reader the idea that a sad thing/death will happen to the person in the description, Ikemefuna.Shortly after that chapter, the writer mentions that Ikemefuna only lived with Okonkwo for three years.The readers here can infer that a tragic will occur to the person in discussion in at least three years.The breaking of the Week of Peace foreshadows Ikemefuna’s death. All these examples indicate that the writer used foreshadowing to develop theme in Things Fall Apart
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In Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart. Achebe uses animal imagery to enhance his descriptions and help describe aspects of human life. For instance, when he describes himself as 'The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.' He shows that he has had to provide for himself, without any help from others. This imagery is also present in the stories that the Igbo mothers tell their children. For example, the story of Tortoise's shell. The story describes why it looks the way it does after its encounters with the birds.
Nature imagery is also used in the novel. This includes the weather in general When Okonkwo experienced a terrible harvest year, the drought was described as 'The blazing sun returned, more fierce than it had ever been known, and scorched all the green that had appeared with the rains. The earth burned like hot coals and roasted all the yams that had been sown.' The intensity of the imagery makes the reader feel every aspect of the situation.
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