Things Fall Apart Essay

Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe is a novel about a tribe called Umuofia, this tribe along with ours had intruded by strangers. These strangers were later called white missionaries, these missionaries were there to colonize the Ibo people and make them believe in their God and their religious practices, they were successful. The novel ' Things Fall Apart' had made the colonization seem as though it was a dramatic change for the Ibo people but there were similarities along with differences between Pre-Colonial and Postcolonial in the Umuofia tribe.

Pre and PostColonial of the Umuofia tribe were similar due to their faith in a higher power at work. On page 63 a conversation took place between a missionary named, Mr. Brown, and the Ibo people discussing their God(s). “You say that there is one supreme God who made heaven and earth. We also believe in Him and call Him Chukwu.” said the Ibo people. Pre and Post-Colonial of the Umuofia tribe believe in

The author stated on page 61 “ Not only the low-born and the outcast but sometimes a worthy man had joined it. Such a man was Ogbuefi Ugonna, who had taken two titles, and who like a madman had cut the anklet of his titles and cast it away to join the Christians. Another way the missionaries got more Ibo villagers to convert was by accident when they made them doubt their religion on page 61. “The next morning the crazy men actually began to clear a part of the forest and to build their house. The inhabitants of Mbanta expected them all to be dead within four days. The first day passed and the second and third and fourth, and none of them died. Everyone was puzzled. And then it became known that the white man's fetish had unbelievable power. It was said that he wore glasses on his eyes so that he could see and talk to evil spirits. Not long after, he won his first three