How Does Things Fall Apart Change Over Time

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe The book Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is about great changes which decides the fate of men, women, and children. The books expresses the changes throughout time such as religion, culture, traditions, and normal everyday life. The novel allows people to pick out the conflicts between characters and their surrounding society. The books differences between then and today are still talked about.
The tribes religion really starts to change as the white people arrive and try pushing their religion onto them. They tried to convince them there was only one God, and they were believing in the wrong ones. The people from the church thought they could purify the tribe, and make them more educated, by spreading around their own religion. (Achebe, #146) The clash of culture is

To do this they sang songs and gave gifts, “Then the missionaries burst into song. It was one of those gay and rollicking tunes of evangelism which had the power of plucking at silent and dusty chords in the heart of an Ibo man” (146) The tribemens did want to join, they had never heard such lovely music and seen such happy men. As time goes on, the missonaries control all of the Umofian government. The untiy is shattered, family ties are meaningless, and the old traditions and culture are forgotten.
The book compares masculinity to feminity, and has the same sexist ways and laws that were around many years ago. If a man is lazy, poor, not smart, and to kind he’s concidered a women. If a man is courages, strong, rich, and smart he’s concideres a man. The laws are also sexsit. For example they have women laws and man laws, a women law is when you break the law on accident and a man law is when you do it on purpose. Even though many places around the world are still sexsist and say men are the stronger sex, were more open to change and more likely to accept