Thing Fall Apart Last Paragraph analysis

In the final paragraph of the book Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe seems to be saying that not all things that are written about his culture are exactly right. He is demonstrating that actions and events can be very much misinterpreted. The character of the commissioner serves as a direct example of how ignorant and lackadaisical some of these people who wrote about these events actually were. The commissioner is very inconsiderate and knows nothing …

…events. Achebe makes it seem like the Europeans will treat Okonkwo's life and eventual death with very little sensitivity. The title of the commissioner's work definitely expresses to the reader that he does not understand the people he is studying and that he is planning to write more about himself and his efforts to pacify the primitive tribes than he plans on writing about the ways of the tribes that he is "studying" so thoroughly.