Things Fall Apart Research Paper

Things Fall Apart written by Chinua is a novel to inform about Ibo life prior to colonialism by Europeans. He attended the University of Ibadan and later became a professor at two different universities, David and Marianna Fisher University and Brown University. He was born in 1930, which was included in the transitional period of colonialism. Achebe wanted to inform Nigerians that Europeans did not create the culture of their villages. Also, Achebe wants to prove that the Nigerians were not primitive people prior to the arrival of the Europeans. Therefore, he wrote a book that explained the traditional life of the Umuofias prior to the arrival of the Europeans. Achebe created Okonkwo to be the protagonist of the story and to be a representative of

They believed that Chukwu made the world and all the other gods. For example, each individual in Ibo had the own chi, which was one personal god or goddess. Each god was a living usually in the form of a woman or a reptile. Which in contrast to the Europeans belief in god was completely different. The European missionaries believed in Christianity, which believes in a god where he is nonliving. He could not be seen but he lived through spirit. In the Christian belief system there is only one supreme god who created all things that populate the earth. They believed that once and individual dies they believe that they will go before god for judgment and for those that worshiped him will live along side him for all eternity in heaven. This caused things to fall apart with the Ibo natives because they did not wish to change their ways. There was conflict because within the village it was a mixture of people that wanted to listen the Europeans and other that wanted to stick with the traditional religion, such as Okonkwo and his son Nwoye. Okonkwo was very resistant to the missionaries that wanted him to convert. He believed that he gave into the Europeans he would be showing signs of weakness and he end up like