Who Is The Narrator In Things Fall Apart

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, we see that Okonkwo was raised into the Igbo belief system and cultural practices which are very different from today's modern world. As the story goes on there are many happenings and situations that we question about because its not something we consider normal unlike the Igbo society does. The narrator wants us to understand that their beliefs and culture is a daily lifestyle and is their type of nature. The narrator wants us to feel as if we are in one of the Igbo people shoes and to play along in their society and wants us to believe that these things can happen even if it's not in your own culture that it may exist somewhere in the world. As readers, we are persuaded by the narrator to believe in their beliefs and cultural practices, especially because the narrator is very consistent in their position that though something to us may seem off that it seems normal to the Igbo society and other societies in the world. .
First off, the narrator wants us to understand that their belief of having to bargain bride prices is
The Oracle of the Hilles and the Caves has pronounced it. They will take him outside Umuofia as it is custom, and kill him there. But I want you to have nothing to do with it. He calls you father. “(1628) The narrator confuses us by telling us after this that Okonkwo played a part of his death but feels guilty for it. The Igbo lifestyle is highly stylized, from its ritual speech to the actions performed for certain ceremonies and it's all to show some respect to an external being , a man, an ancestral spirit, or god? The narrator demonstrates to us how religion and personal beliefs can lead you to doing something that you will definitely regret in the future. Compared to people in today's society where they are sentenced to death because of their horrific actions, here Ikemefuna was sentenced to death without a reason and instead was actually a well mannered