Tone Of Things Fall Apart
The tone of Things Fall Apart shifts from fable-like to disconcerted following the establishment of white missionaries in Umuofia. A disconcerted tone dominates the novel by dint the development of tension between the white man and the Igbo people when the white men “hanged one man who killed a missionary,” (Achebe 155). The arrival of the missionaries and their attempts to convert the Igbo people consequently creates a strain amidst the two groups, represented by a dispute of cultural differences. Beginning as a fable, Things Fall Apart is initially written in an emotionally detached and folk tale modus operandi; introduction of the missionaries and complications resulting from their arrival shifts the tone to disconcerted when unnerving tension