Outside Reading Interpretation

I think that "Things Fall Apart" is a very interesting book because it presents a different style of writing from what I am used to. Most of the books I have read have been very well written and seem to flow perfectly from one sentence to another. In "Things Fall Apart," the sentences seem much more choppy than other, say English literature books. I think that the author is using this effect to possibly represent how the tribe memberes interact with each other. I also find it interesting how the author always describes things in a unique way. Instead of saying that something was blue and leave it at that, this author says "something was as blue as the sky on a day during the harvest season" or something like that. I guess what I am trying to say is that he uses lots of natural and physical objects in his similies and metaphors.
As well as the interesting similies, this book has an interesting way of characterizing different characters other than Okonkwo. It seems as if all the other characters are compared to Okonkwo and that is how the reader gets their ideas about a certain character. How they differ from Okonkwo. His father was not like Okonkwo, his son was not at all like himself. Different things like this. Mainly though, this only applies to the male characters, it is kind of hard to compare and contrast a man and a woman in this culture because the serve such different purposes.
The last thing I will talk about is the culture of this book. It is a real shock how they live there. Killing an innocent boy from a neighboring village because his dad raped a daughter of Okonkwo's village seems a little bit extreme. I also find their gods and religious traditions to be somewhat interesting to read about. It is strange that everyone has their own chi or their own personal god. There must be thousands of gods over there. Lastly, it was a little difficult to get the names down at first but I think I can pronounce them in my head now.