Things Fall Apart Victims

Six million people are dead. That constitutes the number of Jewish people victimized by society during the Holocaust. These victims endure through the worse conditions because of evil people betraying and convicting them. These people died at the hands of other people. The Holocaust victimized Jewish people in ways similar to the anguish of the characters in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. The novel victimizes the characters and one acculturation: Ikemefuna, Okonkwo, and the Igbo culture. Ikemefuna, a boy torn between two different villages, experiences betrayal from his father. Okonkwo, a strong, old fashioned man, becomes a victim and falls apart when a new culture is inserted to his clan. Christian Missionaries ,that are invading the clan, destroy the Igbo culture by bringing a new religion among the culture’s people. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua
The main victims of the story are Ikemefuna, Okonkwo, and the Igbo culture. The only way Ikemefuna could not be a victim is if the people he trusted actually cared for him instead of fearing what will happen to them if they do care for him. Ikemefuna could not change anything about himself that would make not make him a victim. Okonkwo was too fed up with his old ways which led to victimization. He also feared what other people would think of him so much that he became a victim of his own mind. The Igbo culture could have avoided being a victim by thinking before they acted on the village. If the culture’s people would have been more protective of their religion than the culture would have been saved. Victimizing people is important to understand because it drives all of the major wars in the world. Germany started World War II because they felt the Allies victimized them after World War I. Many innocent people in the world are victims of power and other