The novel ends with a District Commissioner expressing his desire to include the main character in his book about the pacification of primitive civilizations.
The novel ends with a District Commissioner expressing his desire to include the main character in his book about the pacification of primitive civilizations. Most of the main character's internal struggles come from his fear and hatred of anything his father, who he considers a failure, loved. By the end of the novel, the main character has killed his foster son, disowned his eldest son, spent seven years in exile, burned down a church, killed a court messenger, and hanged himself. Its title comes from "The Second Coming," a poem by William Butler Yeats. FTP, name this novel, set in Nigeria in the late 19th Century, written by Chinua Achebe.
The novel ends with a District Commissioner expressing his desire to include the main character in his book about the pacification of primitive civilizations.
{Things Fall Apart}