Hello class, for our IO presentation, we will be focusing on the cultural and religious differences found throughout the novel, Things Fall Apart written by a Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe. For this novel, we will be centering our attention towards the clash of cultures and how common symbols used throughout the novel manifest the loss of culture as the Christians colonize and destroy the societal ramifications. SLIDE 2- SHAMRIN To start off, we will talk about the conflict between the two different religions in the book by analyzing this quote. "All the Gods you have named are not Gods at all. They are Gods of deceit who tell you to kill your fellows and destroy innocent children. There is only one God and he has the earth, the sky, you and me and all of us." From this quote, we can tell that the two religions, this novel talks about are Christianity and the Igbo. Christians being the white and the other being a local African tribe called the Ibo tribe who follow a set traditional actions. As we know from reading the book, the Christians think that they are doing good for the Ibo tribe by bring in a new religion. The Christians think that their religion is more developed and is better than the Ibo tribe's because the Christians only have one God and that God does not tell people to …show more content…
All of these factors convinced many of the people of the Ibo tribe that maybe the Gods weren’t real, leading most of the tribe to convert into Christians. However, not everyone could handle the amount of change that was going on. Some tribe members could not let go of everything that they once believed in. Okonkwo was one of those people who could not let go of his old life and he also could not handle the fact that all his friends and family were changing. The conflict between the two religions was to much for Okonkwo so he ended up ending his own