When Okonkwo commits suicide, the District Commissioner muses about including him as a “reasonable paragraph” in his book, The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger . This is the ultimate act of compression. The Commissioner tries to force a tragic hero into a .rar file of colonial history, deleting the complexity of Umuofia. Achebe’s entire novel is an act of decompression —taking that one paragraph and expanding it back into a human life. The root of the fall is the failure of translation; two worlds try to occupy the same space, and because one refuses to listen to the other’s proverbs, only the sound of the drum breaking remains.
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