What Devices has Chinua Achebe employed to make us empathise with Igbo cluture???

Chinua Achebe integrates many devices in his writing to make readers sympathise with the culture in 'Things Fall Apart'. He uses strategies such as showing snapshots of the Ibo culture and colouring the reader's senses with aural, visual and olfactory language. He also uses humour and irony, imagery and metaphors as well as showing the effects white people have on the Nigerian people. Chinua Achebe uses snapshots of the Ibo culture to express what the …

…effects the white people had, the author makes the readers sympathise with the Ibo culture. Through these techniques, Chinua Achebe gives us an understanding of their language, their values of life, and their light heartiness and through that, he shows that District Commissioner was wrong. That the Ibo people weren't 'primitive' but in fact a highly developed, complex and close knit culture. Portraying this, Chinua Achebe makes us, the readers, empathise with the Ibo culture.