Okonkwo's Cultural Collision

What if you were Okonkwo? How would you deal with the situations and mistakes Okonkwo made? Dealing with different doings and beliefs can be quite a task. What does cultural collision mean to you? How would you feel if somebody came into your town and took over? Okonkwo’s sense of identity was challenged with the introduction of Western ideas into the Ibo culture. Okonkwo started out in the novel as a clan leader, but the cultural collision of the British colonists and Ibo people affected Okonkwo to the point of exile. The reasons for Okonkwo’s change in their sense of identity included him taking the role as a clan leader, having 3 wives, and the murders he committed in his village. ‘’Obierka, who had been gazing steadily at his friend’s dangling body, turned suddenly to

Okonkwo vows to be a better man then his father was. Secondly, Okonkwo has ten children and three wives and is abusive to one of them.And finally, Okonkwo dealing with the three murders he committed which led to him being sent off out of the village and him no longer being a clan’s leader, and not being able to come back to the village until his seven years out of the village is up. I’d say to be Okonkwo, it would be a tough and stressful job. He made mistakes and did things he couldn’t take back.’’ It is a crime against the Earth goddess to kill a clansman. There are two types of crimes, male and female.Okonkwo has committed a female crime because the murder is an accident. Nethertheless, he is forced to flee from the clan. He may return after seven years’’.He had three wives and ten kids, and having to leave the village, he had to take his three wives and ten kids with him and provide all of them with food and homes. Okonkwo struggled with the changes taking place in his