Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - 1958
Introduction
Things Fall Apart is a timeless story of one man's struggle against his own self-destructive tendencies. At the same time, the novel is fir...
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 in Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria, to an Igbo family of devout Christian parents (Achebe, Morning Yet on Creation Da...
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 in eastern Nigeria, the son of devout Christian parents. He was baptized Albert Chinualumogu, but dropped this Victorian name when ...
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Biography EssayChinua Achebe is arguably the most discussed African writer of his generation. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has become a classic. It has been read and discussed by reade...
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Chinua Achebe (born 1930) is one of the foremost Nigerian novelists. His novels are primarily directed to an African audience, but their psychological insights have gained them universal acceptance.Ch...
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Chinua Achebe is arguably the most discussed African writer of his generation. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has become a classic. It has been read and discussed by readers throughout the...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Ravenscroft
[Things Fall Apart] is a short and extraordinarily close-knit novel which in fictional terms creates the way of life of an Ibo village community when white mission...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Moore
[Achebe] has recreated for us a way of life which has almost disappeared, and has done so with understanding, with justice and with realism….
Achebe's Thin...
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Critical Essay by R. Angogo
In his two books, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, Achebe uses a language I would like to refer to as 'Ibo in English'. Both these books share a rural side...
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Critical Essay by Philip Rogers
In Chinua Achebe's view, the African writer of our time must be accountable to his society…. To Achebe, it is 'simply madness' to think of a...
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Critical Essay by Sola Soile
[In] Things Fall Apart the society is forced to give way to an inevitable change because of its violent collision with an alien institution. In Arrow of God, however, we h...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
Mr. Achebe is a young Nigerian. In Things Fall Apart, his first novel, he draws a fascinating picture of tribal life among his own people at the end of ...
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Critical Essay by Bruce King
It could be argued that the real tradition of Nigerian literature in English begins with Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart…. It begins a tradition not only b...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Bruchac
[Christmas in Biafra], Chinua Achebe's first book of poetry, may turn out to be, like Things Fall Apart, a landmark in African writing…. Written during t...
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Critical Essay by Phoebe-lou Adams
The breakup of African tribal society is the subject of [Things Fall Apart]…. This theme has been discussed before with the same melancholy conclusions, but M...
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Critical Essay by Bruce King
With the publication of Things Fall Apart (1958) Nigeria had the classic book that would serve as a point of reference and comparison for future writing. The novel was not...
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Critical Essay by Robert Mcdowell
Chinua Achebe's powerful feeling for a lost civilization has really nothing to do with that other West African turning back to tradition—that is, the NE...
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In the following essay, Criswell traces thematic parallels between Things Fall Apart and Yeats's play On Baile's Strand, focusing on conceptual similarities that characterize the tragic ...
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In the following essay, Mackenzie details the transformation of indigenous religious beliefs and practices in Things Fall Apart, comparing it to the relatively static portrayal of religion in Arrow of...
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In the following essay, Begam describe's three distinct conclusions to Things Fall Apart in relation to three different conceptions of history produced by reading the narrative in a post-coloni...
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In the following essay, Iyasere explains the thematic and structural significance of the murder of Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart, focusing on the character development of Okonkwo.
No episode in Acheb...
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In the following essay, Gikandi analyzes the development of meaning in Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease in terms of narrative representations of space and location.
It is not an exaggeration to...
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In the following essay, Meyers discusses Achebe's presentation of both the positive and negative elements of tribal society in Things Fall Apart.
The novels of Chinua Achebe, the best of the ne...
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In the following essay, Iyasere analyzes the complexity of the narrative technique in Things Fall Apart.
No West African fiction in English has received as much critical attention as Things Fall Apart...
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In the following essay, Priebe discusses Achebe's use of proverbs in Things Fall Apart to portray the role of divine justice in Igbo society.
Perhaps the least controversial statement one could...
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In the following essay, McCarthy explores Achebe's use of the English language in Things Fall Apart to simulate the oral quality of African storytelling.
Before the publication of Chinua Achebe...
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In the following essay, Opata argues that the character Okonkwo was not morally culpable when he killed Ikemefuna in Things Fall Apart because he was following the sacred order of the oracle.
As the m...
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In the following essay, Elder analyzes Okonkwo's character in terms of his relationship to Igbo society in Things Fall Apart.
Why does Okonkwo end tragically? This question haunts every reader ...
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In the following essay, Aji and Ellsworth examine how the character Ezinma operates on both a cultural and a literary level in Things Fall Apart.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1959) is com...
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In the following essay, Jeyifo explores issues of gender in Things Fall Apart.
In the oral tradition, we often do not know whether the storyteller who thought up a particular story was a man or a woma...
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In the following essay, Quayson discusses the different critical perspectives portrayed in Things Fall Apart.
It is only when we go to the riverside that we can gauge the size of the water pot.
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In the following essay, MacKenzie traces the shift in belief of the African people in Things Fall Apart and asserts that the shift results from changing social and economic conditions.
Matters of reli...
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In the following essay, Gallagher discusses Achebe's decision to write Things Fall Apart in English.
While studying English literature at the University of Ibadan, Chinua Achebe was appalled by...
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In the following essay, Hoegberg considers the disparity between principle and practice among the characters in Things Fall Apart and how this disparity eventually leads to alienation and violence.
Th...
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In the following essay, Osei-Nyame analyzes the complexity of the relationships and the varying forms of consciousness within the Igbo community as portrayed by Achebe in Things Fall Apart.
Wherever s...
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In the following essay, Wise explores the universality of the plight of the Igbo people as they face the destruction of their pre-colonial culture in Things Fall Apart.
“[I]t may be productive ...
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In the following essay, Nnoromele addresses the question of why the character Okonkwo fails at the end of Things Fall Apart and asserts that Achebe acted as a neutral narrator throughout the novel.
Al...
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In the following essay, Nwabueze analyzes the episode in Things Fall Apart in which the character Okonkwo participates in the killing of Ikemefuna and asserts that this episode has been misinterpreted...
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In the following essay, Egar provides an analysis of the opening and closing passages of Things Fall Apart.
Edward P. J. Corbett, in his Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (1971), sees rhetoric...
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There are many differences between the Clan's beliefs and Christian's beliefs. This is illustrated on pages 126-129, in the mention of `the one true god.' Both the tribe and the Missionaries have diff...
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Colonialism in Africa is one of the great cause for the death of cultures in Africa. Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God are the two of best novels written by Chinua Achebe, who was in favor of writin...
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Things Fall Apart by Achebe is the story of the rise and downfall of a man named Okonkwo and his village. Okonkwo is a man of great strength and prominence in his village of Umofia. He gained most of...
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Chinua Achebe's book Things Fall Apart is a very tragic novel. There was an unhappy ending because Okonkwo died and the Umofian culture broke down and Okonkwo couldn't do anything about it. &nbs...
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"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe and "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare are two very different books that are interrelated through their similar themes and characters. There are characters fr...
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I think the aspects of the "tragic hero" apply to the novel " Things Fall Apart", because the first definition of "tragedy" and "tragic hero" seem to fit.
There is a serious and important action whic...
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Everyone has a different way of growing up which means everyone has a different perspective towards different things, such as power and family. Berl from "The Son from America" and Okonkwo fro...
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In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, there were many characters who were crucial to the story. The most important character was Okonkwo, who was a well known wrestler and warrior, had thr...
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"A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone." Okonkwo's father, as Okonkwo a member of the ...
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In Things Fall Apart, written by "Chinua Achebe one of the great intellectual and ethical figures of our time," which is about "a `strong man' whose life is dominated by fear and anger" (back-cover). ...
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For the two novels studied so far this year, the authors present the reader with varied amounts of African culture. On one side there is Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. On the other is Joseph Conra...
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Slowly the men make their way up the hill with Obierika in the lead. Leaves crunch as feet uniformly step onto the ground. The commissioner and his soldiers are warily eying their surroundings. Eac...
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A critic named David Carroll criticizes Okonkwo from the novel entitled Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, of being heartless, and too critical of implementing laws. Carroll also states tha...
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Through his use of language and choice of words, Achebe enables us to experience life in Ibo society before it was changed by the coming of the white men. By inspecting Achebe's incorporation of Ibo w...
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The novel Things Fall Apart is based on a theme of good versus evil in the heart of a person. Everyday people face a conflict between good and evil, when a cashier gives you too much change, when you...
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Chinua Achebe was born in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria in 1930. His father was a missionary instructor in catechism at the Church Missionary Society's school; this is where Achebe st...
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The integrity of local cultures is compromised for that of the intruding colonizer. There is conflict between the existing traditions and beliefs in an area and the new civilization's rules and ideas...
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"When man says yes his chi says yes also" (Proverb). At the beginning this ancient proverb matched Okonkwo's profile. Later under the weight of circumstances everything had changed. Okonkwo, the stron...
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At first glance the treatment of women in an Igbo marriage is appalling, the woman may be beat if she is out of line, she raises the children, does the housework and even some farm work without hesita...
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Many times change brings out the worst in people. Change requires strength and knowledge of your surroundings. If change is unwanted, it is difficult to deal with and may bring out the weaknesses w...
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In the novel, Things Fall Apart by: Chinua Achebe, there are several major themes. The first of these themes is the theme of family strength. This theme is well represented in the novel in several dif...
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Two people may come to a place with the same cause, but they might carry out a solution to this cause very differently. The characters Mr. Brown and Mr. Smith, in the novel Things Fall Apart by Ni...
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Most of what we know to be African Literature, talks about the changes from an un-dignified "lion-chasing" culture to that of a semi-dignified European society. The novel Things Fall Apart by Nigeria...
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The coming of the white man affects the people of Umuofia's religion and cause culture conflict. The people of umuofia have many gods. Agbala- the oracle of the Hills and Caves. "People come from fa...
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The book A Man of the People is a postcolonial view on politics that is written by the author Chinua Achebe. There is a set stage of corruption, embezzlement, adulatory and bribes which all tie to th...
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"His life had been ruled by a great passion-to become one of the lords of the clan. That had been his life-spring. And he had all but achieved it. Then everything had broken."(pg. 131) This quote des...
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"Things Fall Apart", by Chinua Achebe, is a modern version of a classic Greek tragedy set in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The story takes place in a tribe in Nigeria. Okonkwo, the foc...
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Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s, during the coming of the "white man" to Nigeria. The novel portrays the clash between the white's colonial government and the traditional culture of the Igbo ...
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Erika B. Robles
English Pre Ap, Period 7
Things Fall Apart
March 15, 2005
Things Fall Apart
1.Things Fall Apart, an African-based novel by Chinua Achebe, and "The Second Coming," a poem by Willi...
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In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is portrayed as a respected and determined individual whose fatal flaw eventually works against him. Throughout the novel the readers are shown that Okonkwo has...
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The definition of hero is a man admired for his achievements and qualities, especially one displaying great courage. The presence of a hero has been around in nearly every novel of some nature. Thr...
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In the novel `Things Fall Apart', Chinua Achebe outlines conflicts between the traditional community of clan and the newly- introduced western culture. Okonkwo, the main character of the story, who al...
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In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Achebe discusses colonialism in Nigeria from the perspective of those being colonized. Things Fall Apart is closely related to Conrad's Heart of Darkness and L...
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Although religion is a very controversial topic, it would be hard to argue that it does not benefit a lot of people. On the other hand, it would also be a mistake to say that it does not do harm as w...
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Things Fall Apart
"Don't judge a book by its cover" is a phrase often said to people who make fun of the title of a book or the cover picture. Although the reader may try hard not to judge at a firs...
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Okonkwo in the novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is a tragic figure burdened with a fatal flaw that eventually leads to the ultimate destruction of himself and the destruction of those inf...
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Folk literature is applied in many different ways. It gives people a viewpoint on there culture and how to go about their life. It teaches generations of people the traditions of their culture. I...
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Folk literature is used widely throughout the world. It helps all generations learn about life and to promote good will. This type of literature also contains a variety of genres including fiction, po...
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The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a story that opens the reader's mind to an entirely different way of living in a Nigerian village. Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930, perhaps this...
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Evil. One of the most terrifying words someone could say. Is it an embodiment of all wrong doing? Or is it a manifestation of what scares people the most? Is it a person? Is it an action? Can it...
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Culture Conflict Can Bring Dramatic Changes to Societies
Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe analizes the coming of the white man and its results on the culture of the people of Umuofia. The c...
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Since the 1800's man's knowledge has grown tremendously. We've gone from carved wood, to engineered alloy metal. It's amazing to see how the face of the planet has been changed, but not only the world...
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What is a tragedy? A tragedy has to have a tragic hero who suffers a downfall and has a tragic resolution. In Things Fall Apart, the tragedy is that Okonkwo, the tragic hero, suffers a downfall and ...
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Narrative Technique in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" by: Purwarno, UISU, Medan
Chinua Achebe is probably the most widely read of contemporary African writers. His first novel, Things Fall Apart...
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In the book "Things Fall Apart" Chinua Achebe covers many values of an African tribe. As times change peoples ideas of the Ibo culture are starting to change. Many youngsters of Umofia are trying to c...
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Did you ever realize how many times Chinua Achebe contrasts a variety of subjects in his novel, Things Fall Apart? His novel contrasts topics including gender issues, social standing, and emotio...
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In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the African society of Igbo is portrayed before the unwanted arrival of the Europeans and the destruction of their beloved culture by the Christian Missionaries. ...
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Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe is a very tragic story. In the beginning Okonkwo wins over his town by throwing Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling match. Unfortunately things descend for Okonkwo fr...
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Ancient and modern societies alike often idealize people who have exceptional qualities. The hero is but one example of this idealization as his noble qualities and courage lead him to great achieveme...
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The Broken Chain - an Essay on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
In his novel Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe depicts how British colonisers destroy the traditional Ibo life. One of the pillars of t...
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Things Fall Apart Book Notes is a free study guide on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Browse the summary below:
Author Biography / Context of the Work
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Teaching Things Fall Apart
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Here's a whole manual full of puzzles, games, and worksheets related to the novel! It includes: 1 unit word list and clues, 4 unit fill in the blank worksheets, 4 unit multiple choice worksheets, 4...
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize...
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London (dpa) - Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, often referred to as
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There's a lyric on the Roots' new album, Phrenology, that lays out lead singer Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter's philosophy. "A real raw nigga won't fold or forfeit / Fuck getting money for real / Ge...
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