Colonization In Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe

Every race has different culture values, making them think other cultures are wrong. A person's culture is normal to themselves so as they look at different cultures they might think their weird, not realizing that their culture is similar to another. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, they showed that colonization was not right by the Showing what happened to Okonkwo’s identity and how it was changed by the British, also it showed how his identity being changed affected the tribe. The identity of Okonkwo was a well known respected man for wrestling in the Ibo community. When Okonkwo was young, he earned his respect from everybody by beating one of the best wrestlers in the tribe. “As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the cat,” (Achebe 1). With all the respect okonkwo had he was thought to be a perfect Ibo. Okonkwo had three out of the four titles in the Ibo tribe and one reason he was able to get the first
The reaction to his tribe changing is symbol of what affect this can cause. “Then they came to the tree from which Okonkwo's body was dangling, and they stopped dead.” (Achebe 208) Okonkwo decided to kill himself as a result of his land being taken. This can be looked at as more than just a suicide, it's the death of a whole culture, the last true Ibo is now gone and then true roots of the culture will never be passed down. “That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself, and now he will be buried like a dog…” (Achebe 208). A great leader of the Ibo tribe was driven to kill himself by the British men, because they decided to come and change the Ibo way of life. Colonization caused one of the strongest men in the community to crumble and give up on his culture. Okonkwo's response to colonization progressed the story in a devastating