No Longer at Ease (Penguin Modern Classics)

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No Longer at Ease (Penguin Modern Classics)

No Longer at Ease (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Corruptibility of Civil Servants Mentre nel primo libro il titolo si riferiva ad una poesia di Yeats (”The second coming”) in cui parlava della caduta del vecchio mondo rappresentato dal Cristianesimo, qui il riferimento è a T. S. Eliot

A second theme throughout the story is the modernization of Nigeria and the transition away from tribal traditions. The main character, Obi, is Ibo but his father was a Christian minister who will not take part in traditional village customs honoring tribal gods. There’s a fascinating passage about these superstitions that I will simplify and paraphrase. A younger man (Y) is talking to an older traditional man (O) who tells the younger man: Themes The corruptibility of civil servants; the influence of education; tradition versus progression His deepening love affair with a beautiful, educated nurse Clara Okeke suddenly hits a wall when the latter reveals that she is an Osu. Osu is a caste in Nigeria, and an Osu is someone whose fore-fathers has dedicated themselves as servants of god. It’s a rigid caste-based society and superstition holds that outsiders who marry Osus bring misfortune upon themselves. Obi, being a Christian and hailing from a family of devout Christians (who wouldn’t even eat at their neighbors’ because they sacrifice food to idols – heathen food), believed that this would not be a problem. But Obi couldn’t be further from the truth. His father implores him to change his mind and not marry an Osu, who he equates to lepers. Obi puts forward arguments of Christianity to help his father understand and having his father’s quiet submission he knows that he can convince his mother too. His mother however stoutly refuses to discuss the matter and requests Obi to wait for her death before he marries, and if indeed he marries earlier she threatens to kill herself. The main character studied in England thanks to a scholarship that was paid from Nigeria. He was an impeccable person, who was not possible to bribe or do anything dishonest with him. However, once he ran out of money, his vision of things slowly changed due to thing I'm not going to mention to not spoil anything, but at the end the message intends that money is a super powerful weapon which we all need at least once in our lives. Some people more than others, but we need it. In a nutshell "Money doesn't mean happiness, but gosh it helps!".

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The novel begins with the trial of Obi Okonkwo, who we find within this first chapter is accused of having taken a bribe. The courtroom is full and the case seems to be a very popular one—everyone in Lagos, Nigeria, has been talking about it and is going to witness it in court on his/her day off. Obi seems to be indifferent most of the time until tears come to his face when his "education" and his "promise" are mentioned. Achebe’s influence should go on and on . . . teaching and reminding that all humankind is one.” —T he Nation

El protagonista estudiaba en Inglaterra gracias a una beca que fue pagada por su gente en Nigeria. Él era una persona intachable, a la cual era imposible sobornar o hacer nada deshonesto. Sin embargo, a medida que se quedó sin dinero, su visión de la vida fue cambiando por otras cosas que no diré para no hacer spoilers, pero al final el mensaje demuestra que el dinero es un arma muy poderosa de la cual todos necesitamos alguna vez en la vida. Quizás unos más que otros, pero la necesitamos. En resumen "El dinero no hace la felicidad, pero vaya que ayuda!". Baslarda kitabi bildungsroman yani oluşum hikayesi gibi okudum. Obi'nin kendi ayaklari uzerinde durabilmesi anlatilacak gibiydi. Ama ileredikce fark ediyorsunuz ki aslinda tam bir "olusamama hikayesi". First of all, Obi never really believes that it is all right to take a bribe, he always seems to do so with a sense of guilt. Nevertheless, there may have been moments where it was simply a fall into complacency or even an act that arose out of the aftermath of desperation. Obi grew up in the village of Umuofia, Nigeria. He had a happy childhood with his multiple siblings and parents. His father converted to Christianity, and his mother did so to appease him, but Obi was never very religious. He was very close to his mother.Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the main character in “Things Fall Apart” has returned from England. A union paid his education and now he landed his first government job. Nice perks - an office, a secretary and good pay. Asking these and many more such difficult to answer questions is Chinua Achebe in his book – No Longer At Ease.

Chinua Achebe has written a brilliant novel on the age old condition. However, when you add in the perspective of how the modernization (or colonization) of Nigeria has changed the past with the new, complicated by religion and race, then a whole other can of worms is opened. The heart of the matter leads to corruption. And that makes things very uneasy.

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This is my second book by Achebe, but I must say that I feel disappointed. Unlike the first one (Things fall apart), I couldn't get familiar with the characters, I didn't feel cautivated by the plot or the context of the book, even though they are both similar in both books, but I feel the characters here are not as attractive as in the first book. Hundreds of people came to the reception. He was asked about how far the white man’s country was. Mr. Okonkwo and an old man argued about kola nuts; Mr. Okonkwo said they would eat them, but not sacrifice them to idols. Obi, as a bright kid from his village, is selected for greater things and falls into the “ruler” camp. His village sponsors his education abroad. As a returning British-educated son of the land, in whom Nigeria places its hope for governance after independence, he is immediately given a civil service job earning him ten times more than his peers, plus a car, a driver, a house, a cook and the other trappings of upper middle class life. Furthermore, Achebe depicts a family continuity between Ogbuefi Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart and his grandson Obi Okonkwo in No Longer at Ease. Both men are confrontational, speak their minds, and have some self-destructive tendencies. However, this aggressive streak manifests itself in different ways. Where his grandfather was a man of action and violence, Obi is a man of words and thoughts to the exclusion of action. [1] The story portrays the theme of corruption. Obi faces two particular problems. He has chosen to marry a woman, Clara, who belongs to a family considered taboo by the traditional community. He attempts to resist family and community pressure, but he eventually succumbs. Meanwhile, Clara has become pregnant and must go through a costly and embarrassing abortion. Obi essentially abandons his responsibility toward her in his weak, halfhearted respect for his family’s wishes. He likewise fails at his job, as he resists self-righteously various bribes until his financial situation and morals finally collapse. Unfortunately, he is as clumsy here as in his personal relations. He is arrested and sentenced to prison.

We are indebted to Achebe for reminding us that art has social and moral dimension—a truth often obscured.” — Chicago Tribune

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Chris, too, begins to see a special power in Beatrice during the weeks of crisis. She becomes for him a priestess of sexual and spiritual resources who could, as a prophetess, tell the future. Indeed, it is Beatrice (a literary allusion to Dante’s Beatrice, only one of several whimsical allusions in the novel) who warns Chris and Ikem that they must mend their relationship, that tragedy is in store not only for them but also for Sam. They do not take her seriously enough, however, as they soon discover. Achebe, however, does not allow the elevation of Beatrice into the traditional Igbo role of half woman, half spirit (the Chielo of Things Fall Apart, as Beatrice herself notes), to be the work of the characters alone. In chapter 8, Achebe himself, as omniscient narrator, recounts the Igbo legend of the sun-god who sent his daughter to earth as a harbinger of peace. This legend suggests that henceforth women must stand as mediators between men and their desires, but this too is not Achebe’s final word on the subject. As Ikem says in his confession to Beatrice in chapter 7, “All certitude must now be suspect.”



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