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Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Learner resource 2: Narrative perspective

For each chapter, use these headings and notice when the perspective shifts from that of the protagonist Okonkwo.

Internal perspective of Okonkwo – what he notices and feels

Okonkwo had just blown out the palm-oil lamp… when he heard the ogene of the town-crier piercing the still night air. … Okonkwo wondered what was amiss... He had discerned a clear tone of tragedy in the crier’s voice.

Internal perspective of Ikemefuna - what he notices and feels

All he knew was that a few men had arrived at their house, conversing with his father in low tones, and at the end he had been taken out and handed over to a stranger. His mother had wept bitterly, but he had been too surprised to weep.

Perspective of others reported

He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their out-houses could hear him breathe.

Camera-eye perspective – only actions that a camera could record

She walked up to her husband and accepted the horn from him. She then went down on one knee, drank a little and handed back the horn. She rose, called him by his name and went back to her hut. The other wives drank in the same way, in their proper order, and went away.

Perspective of omniscient narrator – judgements from authoritative point of view

Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.

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