The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is about the Ibo Tribe in Nigeria, Africa. Achebe’s purpose in writing the novel is to show how the Ibo culture acted and how they responded to colonization. The story is based on the strong village leader Okonkwo and his life. Okonkwo has a strong sense of identity and responds to the cultural collision of colonization in a way that results in many consequences that Okonkwo didn’t see coming. His stubbornness and choice to respond to the changes of colonization with anger and a refusal to change take him on a wild series of events that negatively change his life forever showing that being a stubborn, angry person rarely results in a good ending. Okonkwo is the village leader well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond those. His fame is based off of all his successes in his life. What made him become well known and started his fame was when he overthrew the “big cat”, who was …show more content…
It is there where he first experiences the English missionaries way of life and the colonization that takes place. The missionaries teach the Ibo people about Jesus Christ and build a church in what is known to the tribe as the evil forest. It is said that the gods in the evil forest would kill the missionaries, but after a couple of days they were still all alive, which showed the Ibo people that maybe the missionaries god was stronger than theirs. Okonkwo is upset that there are people trying to change the natural traditions of The Ibo Tribe, as he saw his own son convert to the new faith and leave him. “Nwoe did not fully understand. But he was happy to leave his father. He would later return to his mother and his brothers and sisters to convert them to the new faith” (114). Okonkwo was angry at the missionaries for coming and changing his normal routine and converting his own