Achebe

Yesterday for class we had to read the first half of Achebe's "Things Fall Apart".  I first encountered this story when I was a sophomore in high school and to be honest I hated everything about it.  When I saw this title on the syllabus I was tempted to drop the class then and there (not really).  I did not have any interest in reading this again.  This time around though I discovered that I did not hate it.  We have only read the first half at this point, but it is all coming back to me and for some reason it does not seem nearly as awful as it was in tenth grade. I almost look forward to reading the second half.