Civilization In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Almost every civilizat in the world was at one time colonized by another civilization with differing cultural beliefs. this is just the case in the Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. were the Umuofia tribe in niger has being colonized by the british empire. which leds to the members of their tribe to either decide to learn to give into the brits and leave there way of life and accept the new christian teachings or have to fight to uphold their way of life that has kept order and peace in the village. by the end of the book many of the natives start rethinking their culture and join the christian church but the main character named Okonkwo all he is know is to work hard and slowly work his way up the umuofia's social ladder but it is now threatened by the the new christians teachings. at the end of the book okonkwo instead of fighting and knowing he will be unsuccessful he decides to kill himself because no matter how strong he is he knows that his fate was either kill himself or have all of his hard work to be

successful in life would be ruined by the new christian why of life.
many quotes throughout the book tell us about okonkwo's need for success. in the first chapter of the book on page page6 were it says ¨Okoye […] was not a failure like Unoka. He had a large barn full of yams and he had three wives. And now he was going to take the Idemili title, the third highest in the land.¨ since okonkwo's dad was a very unsuccessful lead to okonkwo's need to be successful and make name for himself. which made it hard for him to know all of his work would be gone.
another quote is the book aloud the reader's understanding in the life of okonkwo. ¨then something had given way inside of him. it descended on him again, the feeling, walked in, that night killing ikemefuna (chapter 7, page 62).¨ in this quote okonkwo was looking over a kid named ikemefuna who was killed because of the oracle said for him to be killed. this lead okonkwo into a depression because his own culture would do that. later in the book okankow get banished from umuofia for 7 years after he accidentally kills someone . after all of this okonkwo still believes in umuofia's way of law and believed in the oracle.
this was not the case for okonkwo's son and other members in the tribe who thought that umuofia's tradition were oppressive and harsh so they decided to go to the catholic church because they thought many of her traditions deprived them of their right to be happy. instead of okonkwo's wanting striked order and working hard for success the church thought everyone should be equal and happy.
another factor that lead to okonkwo's death was that many leader became soft and a lod the catholic church to get into there heads and didn't allow them to make rational decisions like they did before.

this was caused by the unsuccessful people turning to the church and this caused the higher and successful people could not compare themselves to any one to be called successful.this cased okonkwo to go mad because there was no way to save his culture that he was stuck with no matter what it did to him. at one point his son joins the church so this conversation happens “Where have you been?” he stammered Nwoye struggled to free himself from the choking grip. “Answer me,” roared Okonkwo, “before I kill you!” He seized a heavy stick that lay on the dwarf wall and hit him two or three savage blows. “Answer me!” he roared again. Nwoye stood looking at him and did not say a word. The women were screaming outside, afraid to go in(chapter 17, page

151).”
If a man has gone so anti christian because of the lose of his culture that he will kill his own son. it mens that he has devoted his life to this culture and needing to be successful in it. this would make sense that he would kill himself instead of letting all of his hard work be for nothing because your culture is being changed every day. although this book was written about a time about a hundred years ago it still hold up to bay with people throwing themselves into work and trying to be rich when they are not really living.