Things Fall Apart Essay
Things Fall Apart
“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, features many cultures that the Ibo people practice. The Ibo people are a clan in a Nigerian village called Umuofia. The Ibo clan practices common tribal traditions like the worship of gods, sacrifice, communal living, marriage, war, and magic. Religion in the Umuofian society was very important and distinct, they have different ways of practicing it, and it is influenced and compared to the Christian religion practiced by the European missionaries that were invading at the time. Religion has been around for millions of years and it is used as a way to explain things that occur throughout our daily living. These events that occur can be explained by religion. The Ibo religion depicted …show more content…
The Ibo people used icons to represent there gods or ‘pieces of wood as said by Mr. Brown “you carve a piece of wood and you call it a god” (179) this proves that they used wood icons to praise there god Chukwu but also it shows how Christian missionaries do not see the similarities between them and the Ibo’s because they are blinded by hatred and focused only on themselves.
The Christian missionaries also use wooden icons as part of their prayers, like the wooden cross, which is used the same way the pieces of wood that Ibo’s use. Ibo’s believed that the icons they use are messengers sent from God, as said by Akunna “he made them for his messengers so that we could approach him through them” (179) and that they are the head of the church on earth, Chukwu is actually the head of the church, they know that someone has to represent him on earth and for the Ibo people it is the minor gods and wooden icons, and similar to them, the monarch is the Christians head. They both believed that there is one head of church and it is there god, Mr. Brown says “the head of my church is god himself” (179) and Akunna agrees “I know”
“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, features many cultures that the Ibo people practice. The Ibo people are a clan in a Nigerian village called Umuofia. The Ibo clan practices common tribal traditions like the worship of gods, sacrifice, communal living, marriage, war, and magic. Religion in the Umuofian society was very important and distinct, they have different ways of practicing it, and it is influenced and compared to the Christian religion practiced by the European missionaries that were invading at the time. Religion has been around for millions of years and it is used as a way to explain things that occur throughout our daily living. These events that occur can be explained by religion. The Ibo religion depicted …show more content…
The Ibo people used icons to represent there gods or ‘pieces of wood as said by Mr. Brown “you carve a piece of wood and you call it a god” (179) this proves that they used wood icons to praise there god Chukwu but also it shows how Christian missionaries do not see the similarities between them and the Ibo’s because they are blinded by hatred and focused only on themselves.
The Christian missionaries also use wooden icons as part of their prayers, like the wooden cross, which is used the same way the pieces of wood that Ibo’s use. Ibo’s believed that the icons they use are messengers sent from God, as said by Akunna “he made them for his messengers so that we could approach him through them” (179) and that they are the head of the church on earth, Chukwu is actually the head of the church, they know that someone has to represent him on earth and for the Ibo people it is the minor gods and wooden icons, and similar to them, the monarch is the Christians head. They both believed that there is one head of church and it is there god, Mr. Brown says “the head of my church is god himself” (179) and Akunna agrees “I know”