Setting Before and After in Things Fall Apart
SPEC: FOR SPECIFICS OF SETTING
PART ONE DIRECTIONS:
Fill out the chart below. You will get to choose which ITEM in the
area of setting. Explain how the item was before and after the missionaries (imperialism/colonization )
came to Umuofia. We will share this in class.
Area of
Setting
Item in
the area
of setting
Explain item
BEFORE the
missionaries came
to Umuofia
Example:
Culture
Language
All language was verbal,
nothing was written down.
History and aspects of Ibo
life were repeated verbally.
Social
Political
Economic
Culture
Explain item
AFTER the
missionaries came
to Umuofia
Reading and writing
opportunities were available
with the missionaries. Some
Ibo learned how to read and
write.
PART TWO DIRECTIONS:
1.Pick one area and one item that you would like to write about the changes in the setting. 2.
Find two quotes to back up the changes. 3. Briefly explain what the quote shows. YOU WILL
USE THIS IN YOUR ESSAY.
Area of Setting
Item in the area of
setting
Quote and page
number to show how
the item was
BEFORE the
missionaries came
Quote and page
number to show how
the item was AFTER
the missionaries
came
Example: Culture
Language
“ . . . and during that
time Okonkwo’s fame
had grown like a
bush-fire in the
harmattan” (7).
“He said that the
leaders of the land in
the future would be
men and women who
had learned to read
and write” (166).
Explain how your quote shows the
setting BEFORE missionaries came to
Umuofia.
MUST BE AT LEAST 2 SENTENCES
Explain how your quote shows the
setting AFTER missionaries came to
Umuofia.
MUST BE AT LEAST 2 SENTENCES
Example: Okonkwo’s fame was not written down
Example: Some Ibo went to school to learn how to
anywhere in Umuofia. His success was known by
being constantly repeated verbally throughout the
village.
read and write. They were not relying only on oral
communication. A few of the Ibo thought they would
have a better future if they learned to read and write