Analysis of the Sacrificial Egg

In The Sacrificial Egg, the author, Chinua Achebe presents the engagement between an African civilization called Igbo and Westernization, specifically European. (Joaquin, 2003) The protagonist, whose name is Julius Obi, is a product of European and African culture-- he is a Western educated Igbo. The stratum begins in the empty market named Nkwo. Since Umuru people think the idol of smallpox is take a breathering at the market, they are afraid to come. Julius Obi thinks much(prenominal) folklore is a kind of superstition. He is careless of the warning foretoken that traditional native people tell him, and he has a frightening experience. Before the Westerns came, Nkwo was a quiet, clean and small market. The Westerns control the business and dirt to the market. The smallpox and fear come side by side(p) genius after the other. The story shows the differences between viewpoints of the compounds and traditional Africans. Because of the difference, conflict happens. Being Western educated, Julius believes from what he has learned that the smallpox is a kind of disease. But native people think it is carried by Kitikpa, a god of smallpox. His girl friends mother, Ma, warns him to stay at home as long as possible, because Kitikpa is in the street.

Chinua Achebe is one of Africas most influential and widely published writers. (NYS Writers Institute, 1998) He was born November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, in eastern Nigeria, the son of a mission-school teacher, one of the early converts to Christianity in his community. (Hastings, 2001) His name in panoptic is Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. He was educated in Western missionary schools and obtained an humanistic discipline degree at the University College in Ibadan. As the author of one of the enduring works of modern African literature, Achebe sees post colonial cultures taking shape story by story.(Bacon, 2000) He uses slope in writing African fiction, in order to harbor Europeans understand African culture and tradition more nowadays and truth honorabley. He also writes to... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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