The Second Coming Vs. Things Fall Apart — страница 2

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. If there is one concept one learns from comparing these two fine literary works . It is to not dwell on mistakes in the past but to make them up by doing well in the future . Chinua Achebe and William Butler Yeats make this idea understandable to us by using it in their works of art. Okonkwo new the end of his culture was coming so he tries to do whatever he can to stop it . After years of hopelessness he finally sees a way out through death . In The Second Coming there is no way to stop the apocolypse from happening . So the world becomes helpless and falls victim to The Second Coming . The stories that both the book and the poem told were of life s end.