Taped+Radio+Show+Discussion

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 * Readers’ Discussion on //Things Fall Apart// **

(taped radio show 2000) very rough list of topics

0:00 Oral tradition vs novel structure; Yeats’ poem; spirituality

6:30 immersed in culture; rituals described but not explained

7:30 simplicity of style

8:30 popularity

9:20 Colonialism changes

11:20 role of women

14:30 twins

15:30 missionaries

18;30 religion

19:30 language vs physical

21:00 racial

22:30 chapter vs paragraph

24:30 comparison to youth culture

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">26:00 “All the stories are true”

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">27:45 language and psychology; compromise

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">31:00 Achebe

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">34:00 twins

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">35:30 yams

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">36”00 religion

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">38:30 oral tradition vs written

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">39:30 age when written; audience

<span style="font-family: 'Goudy Old Style','serif'; font-size: 16px;">43:30 destruction caused by colonialism