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In the life of all people conflicts have occurred, but on the day of judgement over these problems people are not judged by the conflict that occurred, but by how the handled it. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a famous novel because it uses a complex story with complex characters, much like the real world. This book displays failure as much as it does success, and most of the failure and success is caused by a character's reaction to the conflict that they face. This leads to the observation that in Things Fall Apart, and in the real world when faced with a problem people tend to succeed by solving it and change the world around them, are changed by the problem for better or worse, or people are taken down by the conflict and do not recover leading to failure. …show more content…

In my life of 15 years I have experienced many conflicts, but the most noteworthy are those that have happened since I joined high school band about 2 months ago. Since that time I have dealt with conflicts I thought I would never had to deal with my favorite of those was a problem I experienced with my bass drum carrier when the back part of it broke. In some drumlines this is a night ending experience, but in the GHS drumline we collectively solved the problem with thirty plus wraps of duct tape, effectively persevering through the problem and changing the world around us. In the vast world of the oppressed and nonpersistent, people are often changed by problems for better or worse. One human example of this is Nwoye in Things Fall Apart, Nwoye is very changed by his conflicts. One of his greatest conflicts is the killing of Ikemefuna which permanently drives a wedge between him and his father. This change eventually gives him the strength to leave his father later

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