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Things Fall Apart. ……and tend to shatter. Conflict is everywhere. By Chisa Nguyen. Define: Conflict. Internal Conflict:. A state of opposition between persons, ideas or interests. The opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings. External Conflict :.
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Things Fall Apart ……and tend to shatter. Conflict is everywhere. By Chisa Nguyen
Define: Conflict Internal Conflict: • A state of opposition between persons, ideas or interests. • The opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings. External Conflict:
Person vs. Person VS. Person vs. Nature Person vs. Group Person vs. Self
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. Hilarire Bellroc We all have conflict in our lives. Maybe you have experienced one of these conflicts: • you and your parents have different ideas about curfew • your best friend likes the same person you do • you love Lil’ Wayne and your teacher thinks he is overrated and mediocre • you want to make new friends, but you are afraid of offending your current friends Write about it!
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing It’s time for A/B sharing! • Find someone near you to work with. • Decide who is going to be A and who will be B. • A’s are going to talk for 1 minute about how they were able to resolve the conflict they wrote about, or if they have not resolved it why they think the conflict still exists and what they plan to do to solve it. • B’s are going to talk for 1 minute about how the conflict they wrote about has made them a stronger person and what they have learned from it.
Oh, Okonkwo. You are so conflicted! Using a Venn diagram compare and contrast one of Okonkwo’s conflicts with one of your own. As you finish please share with someone near you. • Okonkwo vs. Unoka • Okonkwo vs. Nwoye • Okonkwo vs. Himself • Okonkwo vs. _________ What they have in common goes in the middle. Your conflict Okonkwo’s conflict
Conflict is essential to literature….why? 1. Without it nothing happens. Would you read this story? There was once a man who lived in Nigeria. He was Igbo. He grew yams. The End. 2. Everyone can connect with conflict because everyone experiences it! For example…….. http://wefeelfine.org/
Conflict Creativity Using the quote you’ve chosen from the We Feel Fine website do some creative writing in your writer’s notebook. You can: • write as if you are the person who was feeling that way • respond to that person, give them advice • tell them a story where you had a similar feeling or situation • use the quote as dialogue in a story
Conflict occurs all day, every day, around the world. Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.Francis Meehan
"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart." - Okonkwo, Ch. 20 • Why do you think Okonkwo considers the white man clever? • Do you think the Igbo were foolish to let the white people into their lives? • What do you know about colonization? • What kinds of conflict can arise from colonization? • What kinds of conflict occurred in Things Fall Apart due to colonization?
Why do things fall apart? • Consider the following six conflicts and work in groups of 2-4 to decide what role they each play in the disintegration of Umuofia. Okonkwo’s determination to be the opposite of his father. Okonkwo’s inability to express his feelings. Okonkwo’s personal ambition which often exceeds his loyalty to Umuofian culture. The conflicting roles of women. For example, they hold an important role in religion, but are thought of as inferior in daily life. Okonkwo’s exile and the changes that take place in his absence. The arrival of the colonizers and Christianity.
Rank each conflict in order of their contribution to things falling apart from least to most responsible. Everybody up! Let’s Make a Human Graph! Be ready to explain your #1 choice.
Write 3 literal statements for each of the following photos…….. As you look at the next few slides I want you to think about the conflicts that occur in Things Fall Apart in a more general sense. Take the things that are occurring in the novel and apply them to what has happened in our world in the past and to what is happening in our present. Think bigger picture! Keep all of this in mind when looking at these photos.
For all 3 photos write 3 inferential and 3 evaluative statements in addition to the 3 literal statements .
Let’s Try It With Quotes! • Find 3 quotes that relate to conflict in the book. • Write them in your Writer’s Notebook, and leave room under each quote. • Make sure you format the quote properly with proper citations. • Write L.I.E. Statements for each of the quotes. Now What?!?! Inferential Statement + Evaluative Statement = Topic Sentence
Putting it all together. Please write a three-chunk paragraph about one of the conflicts in Things Fall Apart. Things to think about: Why has the author included the conflict in the story? What is he saying about that type of conflict? What does the conflict mean to Igbo society? What does that kind of conflict mean in the world? Connect the specific conflict from the book to what you believe the author is saying about conflict in general. Use quotes as your concrete details and use proper TLQ!
