How Does Okonkwo's Change In Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo Difficulty To Accept Change

In Umuofia, Nigeria, the Igbo people who lives in a village has many interesting traditions and ceremonies, such as Igbo people use chalk thats made out of clay is used by Ibo in rituals before colonization happened. Can a change affect everyone making everything fall apart especially changing someone? Chinua Achebe in his novel Things Fall Apart answers this question about this by telling a story of British colonization through an African point of view. In this work of historical fiction, Okonkwo wants his power back but he was kicked out of his village because he shot a boy on accident and years later his village were taken over by the christians then they made his people get into christianity, so Okonkwo

Everything he plans, bring everything back to normal, no more christians, no more new religion,etc. He wants everything back to normal before the british came but it didn’t go that way, he became weak, sad, overpowered and determined. For example, “Okonkwo was deeply grieved. And it was not just a personal grief. He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart,” (Pg.183) This shows a symbol of sadness and weakness, which he doesn’t want to be because to him, his father was weak and woman-like and he doesn’t want to be like his father. Okonkwo couldn’t handle it no longer, the new changes and the british basically overthrown him and they drove him to kill himself, in the book, it shows how Okonkwo ended his life and how it’s an abomination for him to do that, “Then they came to the tree from which Okonkwo’s body was dangling, and they stopped dead.” (Pg.207) “ “Why can’t you take him down yourselves?” he asked. “It is against our custom,” said one of the men. “It is an abomination for a man to take his own life. It is an offense against the Earth, and a man who commits it will not be buried by his clansmen. His body is evil, and only strangers may touch it. That is why we ask you people to bring him down, because you are strangers.” “ (Pg.207) This shows disgrace and weakness to Okonkwo’s action, in the end, he turned out to be like his