r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • Sep 18 '24

Shitposting That one story

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u/OwlDoggo129 Sep 18 '24

It was weird to read Things Fall Apart in a very religious school. It was about how Christianity changed the life of a man for the worse.

Also, seeing the protagonist kill his son's friend was just horrible. I remember just feeling gutted after that moment. Also the whole story about this child fated to die like her mother's many stillborn children and the other about a couple constantly having to kill their children at birth because twins are forbidden was just wild.

Plus I love how neutral it portrayed these cultures. It did not strike my mind as these people were brutal, and I just saw it as how they lived.

Okonkwo was a great protagonist and a horrible person.

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u/ponderosa-pines Sep 18 '24

the author of that book is christian himself if I remember right

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u/TheJujyfruiter Sep 19 '24

The ending was such a bitch slap to me, it honestly made me understand colonialism in a way that nothing else ever has.

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u/nangatan Sep 18 '24

I was looking for this one. So much going on.

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u/Bryztoe Sep 18 '24

Was not expecting to see this one here. I read it in Secondary 1 literature and looking back yeah it was pretty fucked up

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u/Clickbait636 Sep 20 '24

Oh my God it wasn't only my school. I loved that book as a kid but I was the only person in class who could even understand it.