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Things Fall Apart Imperialism Analysis

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Throughout the world and Africa a lot of imperialism happens because of missionaries. It also happens in the book and poem White man’s Burden and Things fall Apart. White man’s burden is a poem about people who took up the responsibility to teach non-whites Christianity. The people that they were trying to teach did not understand the reasoning for them doing this. Things fall Apart is a book about the villages of the Igbo religion and a man named Okonkwo, a leader of a clan. Throughout the book he faced many struggles such as being kicked out of the village and his life starts to fall apart and have many problems. White man’s burden and Things fall Apart discuss imperialism in different ways by teaching religion, forced a new government, and tried to live off the resources of the Africans. …show more content…

Kipling writes thatIn White man’s Burden the white people take the responsibility to teach the non-white people about their religion and, Kipling concludes “Take up the White Man’s burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed-” (1-,2). This means they take the responsibility to teach the religion and send the best people to teach it as best they can; they forced this religion on the Africans and gave them no choice. The missionaries also forced government onto them.
In Things fall Apart the missionaries forced their own government on the Igbo people. They will call meeting to order and talk about their Christianity, or tell each other why they’re correct about their religion. “And so Mr.Brown was respected by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.”(178). The quote is showing Mr.Brown, a white christian missionarie had tried to take control and teach the Igbos their government by gaining

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