I believe it was the great and powerful Napoleon Bonaparte who once said, "In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit." Bonaparte was not simply referring to the fact that the spirit of the people is stronger than the strength of the sword, but he was also referring to the fact that there is no real oppression. It is the same deceptive oppression that we can see happening on the modern continent of Africa. The African people have experienced "complexes of denigration and self-humiliation" (Achebe). In the book Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe tries to help his "society regain self-confidence and put aside" these complexities. For Achebe the African image still has hope, and it is through the liberation of his novel that he successfully shows his people what a strong society can achieve, and also shows his people whose fault it was to get them into the situation in which it is located. currently in. To begin with, Chinua Achebe helps strengthen the self-confidence and spirit of his people by strongly emphasizing and reflecting on the achievements of Igbo society. Achebe begins to describe the superiority and ornamentation of the Igbo people when he introduces us to the novel's protagonist Okonkwo. He describes his arrival in a nearby village by saying that “Okonkwo of Umofia came to Mbaino as a proud and imperious emissary of war, he came with honor and respect” (Achebe 12). Achebe chooses to describe Okonkwo in such a way as to highlight how strong Igbo society once was. For Achebe, Okonkwo is a metaphor for the success of the Igbo people, the things that the Igbo excel at can also be seen in Okonkwo, in this case they were strong, disciplined and most importantly... middle of paper ...... born from his mistakes (Achebe 97). The “birds agreed that he was a changed man, and each gave him a feather” (Achebe 97). But later the birds discovered that the Tortoise was a deceitful and deceitful person, so the birds united with each other and took back what they had given him; in this case everyone took back a feather. The above story is a clear example of Achebe's emphasis on who the enemy truly is. Achebe in this case tries to show his people that the real enemy is deception and deception. In his case such an enemy insinuates himself into the community of men and robs them little by little. In context, the tortoise snuck into the bird community and stole their feathers and food. In short, Achebe tries to show his people that to fight an enemy they must unite with each other and take back what was theirs..