Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

In the novel, “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe the author illuminates generational change overtime, in order to present progression throughout cultures within a society. To point out, the intent of change altered decisions and religious beliefs within the novel that hindered the function of Umuofia’s society. This deeply affected Unoka, Okonkwo, and Nwoye as each character fell into the division of their generational perception. That is to say, “Our dead fathers are weeping because of the shameful sacrilege they have all seen with our eyes.” (Ch.24/Pg.174). Umuofia has weakened in the state of mind, as they have deprecated the tradition of worshipping gods, in retrospect to finding a new faith. There is no significant entitlement that has

As a society, Umuofia is undergoing evolutionary change that encounters more than prosperity and wealth, but idiosyncrasy.
Granted, Unoka had lived through a society where masculinity was visual. Whether it was through a surplus of cowries or a multitude of wives, each man had to earn their own wealth and respect. Initially, Umuofia’s society wasn’t of inheritance, but of proving that you are capable of working with resilience and power. It was quite a disgrace to borrow such endeavour of wealth and fail to still have nothing. Often as Unoka did, “Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. I shall pay my big debts first.” (Ch.1/Pg.5). His inability to confront his debts, enabled the people of Umuofia to despise him. They pitied his lifestyle however, many men still lend a hand to rise from his faulty action. Umuofia was a village built off of a community. There was more social interaction that created unity amongst the people of the villages no matter the circumstances one was in. Nonetheless, tending to their crops was taken seriously.

Since there is an uproar of a younger generation, much of Umuofia’s change was based on their own revelation. As the white man seized the villages, their values had developed interest in those that lived amongst those clans. Much of Umuofia’s tradition was no longer embedded in their beliefs and there was a wider scale of comprehensible diversity in culture. They had reduced their ability to seek power and became content with the idea of a new religion. As expressed in the novel, “We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. That is a wise action.” (Ch.18/Pg.139). Umuofia’s society overtime had incoherently became cowardly. The white man’s actions were very unpredictable, that many of the members wished to avoid such aggressive confrontation. As much as Umuofia feared exile, they did not fail to understand their belief. They had become a unified village solely based on a new guidance that embellishes their sense of living. “More people came to learn in his school, and he encouraged them with gifts of singlets and towels. They were not all young, these people who came to learn.” (Ch.21/Pg.156). Moreover, Umuofia had altered for good, and as much as Okonkwo wished to change it, there was an undeniable fact that all clans no longer acted as one. They let Okonkwo face fear on his own and still relinquished apart of their original culture by