They share similar concepts which are change, identity or finding oneself, and society. These concepts go hand in hand in exploring the overall idea in each work. The first concept that is shared between Things Fall Apart and Walden is change. In Achebe 's novel, Okonkwo is faced with change after he and his family are forced to move away from his village for a long period of time, and many events take place during that time. This change can be shown on page 56, where it is written "and at last the locust descend. They settled on every tree and on every blade of grass; they settled on the roofs and covered the bare ground. Mighty tree branches broke away under them, and the whole country became the brown-earth color of the vast, hungry swarm". The locusts are a metaphor for European settlers arriving in the tribes, and they slowly consume everything until there is not much left over. This happens to the villages as they start to assimilate with the foreign culture and abandon everything they used to know behind. It leads to the destruction of many villages and even Okonkwo himself. In
They share similar concepts which are change, identity or finding oneself, and society. These concepts go hand in hand in exploring the overall idea in each work. The first concept that is shared between Things Fall Apart and Walden is change. In Achebe 's novel, Okonkwo is faced with change after he and his family are forced to move away from his village for a long period of time, and many events take place during that time. This change can be shown on page 56, where it is written "and at last the locust descend. They settled on every tree and on every blade of grass; they settled on the roofs and covered the bare ground. Mighty tree branches broke away under them, and the whole country became the brown-earth color of the vast, hungry swarm". The locusts are a metaphor for European settlers arriving in the tribes, and they slowly consume everything until there is not much left over. This happens to the villages as they start to assimilate with the foreign culture and abandon everything they used to know behind. It leads to the destruction of many villages and even Okonkwo himself. In