While reading Things Fall Apart, I kept thinking back to One
Hundred Years of Solitude. Both works portray societies crumbling under the
pressure of colonialism. Just as in One Hundred Years of Solitude, the european
colonists implemented themselves in the commercial culture of the village and
slowly creeped into controlling all aspects of village life. The characters in
both have to actively fight to save and uphold their culture and history as the
oppressive colonialists destroy everything they ever held dear. Also, Things
Fall Apart has some elements of magic realism that were so influential in One
Hundred Years of Solitude.
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