Saskia’s Reviews > Things Fall Apart > Status Update

one thing that is disappointing about classics like this is how the blurb just tells the entire plot of the book as if those things happen earlier in the story than they actually do— finally however, I have reached the point that it is all about and I love the way that the missionaries arrival is explained and viewed. now that the traditional world has been established the colonial one is super sharp contrast

the folktales of Tortoise being greedy and getting punished by the birds, and Mosquito having an unrequited romance for Ear add something so interesting to the central plot and do much to bring the worldview of the characters to life— also loved the idea that white people don't have toes