Things Fall apart essay

Things Fall Apart Essay In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the life of the natives of the Ibo village Umuofia are described. The action centers around a member of the tribe named Okonkwo. He is a fairly successful man in the tribe. The novel chronicles his life showing customs and beliefs held sacred by the tribe. It paints a pretty vivid picture of what life is like in the Ibo village. The …

…for a pretty long time. They had religion, customs, some of which were superstitious, weird, and sometimes even a little frigherning, and government. When the white men tried to "save" them, they basically destroyed their civilization. In my opinion, what the white men were doing wouldn't necessarily have been bad if they had gone about it in a different way. The villagers were better off before the presence of the white man ruled their life.