Question

In at least two hundred words, discuss why the author may have chosen to write this novel in English. What was his intent?

Answer 1

I can't give you 200 words but I can give you a basic outline of what his intent was.

The big idea that Chinua Achebe wanted to portray is that societies different from our own have just as much complexity. Achebe wanted to educate a western audience who mainly believed that life in Africa in the time period of the novel was filled with savagery and primitiveness. This is why he highlights the positive parts of igbo society and the not so positive lets leave the twins to die in the forest parts.