Change Is Inevitable In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Change is Inevitable
Chinua Achebe wrote a novel, Things Fall Apart, where he depicted the perspective of a group of people’s change from Igbo traditions to Christian conversions. Okonkwo was a great wrestler in his tribe, a very respected clansman, and a great farmer. He was was a stern and a lot of times a brutal father and husband, he also stuck to the igbo religion very tightly and was not a man of change. He had strived to be a great leader in the clan but that was ruined when his gun exploded at a funeral accidentally killing a sixteen year old clan member. That lead to him and his family being exiled to his motherland as punishment. While they were in his motherland, missionaries went to umuofia to spread christianity and their government. Okonkwo disapproves of the new religion and the …show more content…
It also helps the theme, that, change is inevitable because of how it is out of his control to stop what is going on around him. In the novel “Things fall apart” the main character Okonkwo goes through many things that causes him to become even more bitter, like the killing of ikemefuna. This happens after the oracle decided that he needed to be killed. Okonkwo tagged along but was not supposed to be a part of the killing because the elder Ogbuefi Ezeudu told him that since Ike called okonkwo father, then Okonkwo should not be a part of his death. Okonkwo does not follow the worlds of Ezeudu and when the first strike from the machete did not kill Ike he ran to Okonkwo, and which “Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down” (Achebe 61). These actions caused okonkwo to go into a downward spiral for a bit causing him to not eat and drink palm-wine excessively and lose sleep. After a few days he started calling himself a women and finally straightened up and this is where he starts to become more of a bitter person. This event also leads to the bitterness he
Chinua Achebe wrote a novel, Things Fall Apart, where he depicted the perspective of a group of people’s change from Igbo traditions to Christian conversions. Okonkwo was a great wrestler in his tribe, a very respected clansman, and a great farmer. He was was a stern and a lot of times a brutal father and husband, he also stuck to the igbo religion very tightly and was not a man of change. He had strived to be a great leader in the clan but that was ruined when his gun exploded at a funeral accidentally killing a sixteen year old clan member. That lead to him and his family being exiled to his motherland as punishment. While they were in his motherland, missionaries went to umuofia to spread christianity and their government. Okonkwo disapproves of the new religion and the …show more content…
It also helps the theme, that, change is inevitable because of how it is out of his control to stop what is going on around him. In the novel “Things fall apart” the main character Okonkwo goes through many things that causes him to become even more bitter, like the killing of ikemefuna. This happens after the oracle decided that he needed to be killed. Okonkwo tagged along but was not supposed to be a part of the killing because the elder Ogbuefi Ezeudu told him that since Ike called okonkwo father, then Okonkwo should not be a part of his death. Okonkwo does not follow the worlds of Ezeudu and when the first strike from the machete did not kill Ike he ran to Okonkwo, and which “Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down” (Achebe 61). These actions caused okonkwo to go into a downward spiral for a bit causing him to not eat and drink palm-wine excessively and lose sleep. After a few days he started calling himself a women and finally straightened up and this is where he starts to become more of a bitter person. This event also leads to the bitterness he