Short Story Analysis/ Civil Peace

Once you altogetherow your human foot to be restored, not a small or quick task, you will be able, with paragons help, to build the vivification He always intended you to eat (Sandra Celeste). Chinua Achebe, the author of courteous Peace, writes nigh a stereotypical life in Africa, from struggles to miracles, the story is focused around the main vitrine, Jonathan Iwegbus, point of view. The main involvement is the bittersweet fact that civil War has come to an end, but many African families have unconnected everything they have ever known. Jonathan, is surprised to see that his house is gloss over rest when other structures around it are demolished.The author uses motifs, characterization and diagram to gain echo conflict through and through the entire piece. A quote that is iterate passim complaisant Peace is that, Nothing Puzzles God (Achebe 359). This motif helps co-occurrence the characters, which further helps curb the conflict. This recurring quote helps su pport the theme by giving characteristics to Jonathan. He is being blessed over and over again, and clay humble. At the end of the Civil War, his bike is kept safe and he is able to sell, and then afford a taxi drive fundament to Enugu to search for his home.In that whole experience, he does nothing but say that God is limitless, But, needless to say, even that monumental blessing must be accounted similarly totally inferior to the five heads in the family. This newest miracle was his little house in Ogui Overside. Indeed nothing puzzles God (Achebe 359). This quote gives support to the motif, which then is visualised as the theme. The motif is also the main supportation for the main character, Jonathan. In the Civil Peace, Achebe describes the main character, Jonathan, as a humble African man, who experiences difficulties after the Civil War.He is directly supported by the theme that, Nothing Puzzles God, because of the amount of times he is heard saying it. Characterization is a big pct in this story, and it is used to support the theme, which is the direct backbone to the main conflict. The conflict is based around Jonathan and his struggle to make his home and his life. Through Jonathan the move around is not hard to read, due to the complete humble nature of him and his life. I count it as nothing, he told his sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was tying.What is _egg-rasher_? Did I depend on it last week? Or is it greater than other things that went with the war? I say, let _egg-rasher_ perish in the flames let it go where everything else has gone. Nothing puzzles God (Achebe 364). Even in his worst times, when all he had earned for his family after the war was taken away, he still praised God and put it into a completely different viewpoint. Jonathans character is a great use of conflict supportation, but his character also enhances the plot, which in the end directly reflects the main theme.The plot of any story is the foundation and the bas e for all characters, themes, or motifs. Plot is used to portray natural action throughout the story. In the Civil Peace, the author uses the plot to intensify Jonathans character and magnify the main conflict. The two most important conflicts that happen throughout the story are when Jonathan travels to Enugu and discovers that him and his family will be forced to work and rebuild their home and lives, and when Jonathan has worked and earned money but gets robbed and is left with nothing one time again.The plot emphasizes these points when, Jonathan and his family were now completely paralysed by terror. Maria and the children sobbed inaudibly desire lost souls. Jonathan groaned continuously (Achebe 362). The author uses syntax and diction in this excerpt, to support the plot. He used words like, inaudibly and, paralyzed with terror, which is called imagery and helps the readers have a direct connection to the plot. In many ways plot is used to further the conflict.In many ways the author, Chinua Achebe, uses a motif, theme, characterization through the main character Jonathan, and plot, to support the main conflicts. These literary devices are find out factors in the story of the Civil Peace. By examining the authors decision of writing this piece, it is do clear that the intended theme is that, Nothing Puzzles God. Knowing that this is the theme and the authors purpose is important in determining the conflict and the reasoning behind it. In this case, the author uses the literary devices to further and extend upon the conflict.