I have uploaded a draft of my essay. I need two more pages added to it because the paper needs to be 5 pages. This is the prompt.
Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart has been read, in part, as a response to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and it also launched modern African literature as we know it today. Write a paper in which you consider Achebe’s project. He is not simply condemning Christianity and colonialism, rather he seems to say that the seeds for Umuofia’s destruction had been laid, indeed festering, for some time. Some questions to consider: In what ways does Achebe’s novel dismantle the dehumanizing representations of African people that proliferate in Conrad’s novel? How does he represent Okonkwo as a tragically flawed, yet still memorable, figure?
Your paper should possess a thesis statement, have a solid organizational structure, show elegant use of specific textual evidence using close reading and textual analysis, be presented in a clear writing style, and conclude with a sense of what is at stake in your analysis. These are the components of writing on which your paper will be assessed.
The sources are Things Fall Apart and Heart of Darkness and we need a secondary source. A literary article from our school’s library which is Jennings Library at Caldwell University.