Things Fall Apart Conflicts

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Conflict happens everyday. It is how a person reacts to the conflict that determines their success or failure. How a person reacts doesn’t just affect him or herself, but also the people around them. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there is conflict. There is conflict everywhere. I experience conflict everyday. My sister is the type of person who wants to take responsibility that will allow her to go places even if she didn’t do it. For example I am trying to sugar up my mom so I clean the house all by myself and go above and beyond. My sister most of the time realizes she didn’t do anything all day and that she will get in trouble. When she does realize this she will ask me to tell mom that she helped. That would cause me not to be …show more content…

There are a number of conflicts in the story, one of the main ones is the desire that Okonkwo feels to overcome the legacy of his lazy father Unoka. Unoka is a lazy man who didn’t pay his debt, drank a lot, had no respect from the tribe, and had no title. Okonkwo is ashamed of him very greatly. To overcome the knowledge of being Unoka's son he worked incredibly hard to build his fortune, became a great warrior and wrestler, and refused to show any sign of weakness or emotion. Because of this he unable to sit back and had to participate in the killing of Ikemefuna, he fired a gun at one of his wives and even beat another wife during peace week, all of which resulted in serious consequences. I have read a book called Anxiety Attack. One of the main characters in the book is a girl and she experiences anxiety attacks every day especially at school. This causes her to shut out the world and not talk to anybody but her immediate family. One day a boy notices and starts trying to talk to her and get to know her. She does not react well to that. She freaks out and doesn’t like that he wants to talk to her. The conflict with her anxiety attacks cause her to not be an open person and allows her to shut out the world. There are many conflicts throughout everyone's lives. With every conflict another conflict can come. Things Fall Apart is a great example of that. One conflict can cause another. How you react

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