Things Fall Apart: Cover (09/09/11)

I really like the version of the cover of Things Fall Apart that we were given. It shows a distraught face of (what we are to think of Okonkwo's face) engraved in a scorched, cracked up patch of African soil. The cracked surface almost symbolizes Okonkwo's story, in that his dreams and pure figure wither eventually and dry to the ground under the beating hot sun. On the bottom of the cover there is a powerful quote written by the honorable Nelson Mandela. The quote says,"The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down." (in reference to Achebe) Mandela is considered to be one of the most revered men in history and this quote reinforces the validity of this novel and its telling of a true African story.