Achebe's novel "Things fall apart".

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."-James Baldwin. Respond to this quote in relation to Achebe's novel, Things Fall apart. The quote by James Baldwin can be applied to Achebe's novel, Things fall apart, by …

…quote about Achebe's novel does not solely represent the destruction of the Ibo culture with the arrival of the white missionaries. It also represents the deterioration of all the African cultures and also the deterioration of the single man. As a man's cultural values begin to deteriorate, his courage will also disappear. Thus, a man and his culture are the same in which when one begins to go under the other will do the same.