• Chinua Achebe, "Things Fall Apart" Looking at the first two chapters of the novel Things Fall Apart, explain how Achebe develops Unoka as a foil for Okonkwo.

     

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Published: 22.01.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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Looking at the first two chapters of the novel Things Fall Apart, explain how Achebe develops Unoka as a foil for Okonkwo.
A foil is literally a sheet of bright metal that is placed under a piece of jewellery to increase its brilliance. In literature, by extension, the term is applied to any person or sometimes thing that through strong contrast underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another. The first 44 pages set up two character foils, Unoka for Okonkwo and Ikemefuna for Nwoye. Focusing on the former, it can be said that Unoka acts as a foil for Okonkwo contrasts…

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