Introduction--Things fall apart : an African classic / by Solomon Iyasere -- The mouth with which to tell their sufferings : the role of narrator and reader in Achebe's Things fall apart / by Angela Smith -- The search for values theme in Chinua Achebe's novel, Things fall apart : a crisis of the soul / by Willene P. Taylor -- Rhythm and narrative methods in Achebe's Things fall apart / by B. Eugene McCarthy -- Narrative techniques in Things fall apart / Solomon O. Iyasere -- The sphinx and the rough beast : linguistic struggle in Achebe's Things fall apart / by Julian N. Wasserman -- Sophisticated primitivism : the syncretism of oral and literate modes in Achebe's Things fall apart / by Abdul Janmohamed -- Okonkwo's walk : the choreography of Things fall apart / by Russell McDougall -- Eternal sacred order versus conventional wisdom : a consideration of moral culpability in the killing of Ikemefuna in Things fall apart / by Damian Opata -- Okonkwo's participation in the killing of his "son" in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart : a study of ignoble decisiveness / by Solomon O. Iyasere.