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What Is Okonkwo's Response To Umuofia

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If another religion were just to barge in and tell you your gods are fake, how would you respond? In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, it tells a story of an unfortunate man named Okonkwo. He was one of the greatest man of umuofia. He went through a series of misfortunes One of the more significant one, was when he was exiled because his gun exploded killing the son of a great warrior. Okonkwo’s exile was 7 years, but the exile didn’t stop him. What ended him was the introduction of Christianity to the igbo culture. Okonkwo's response to the igbo and christianity having a cultural collision was a negative response because it changed many things in Umuofia and he saw the christians as foolish. During Okonkwo’s stay in his motherland …show more content…

All these changes were due to christianity coming in and colliding with the Igbo culture. Christianity brought in new changes for the people in Umuofia and nobody really cared for the changes. Okonkwo though despised the changes and wanted to drive the Christians out. But Okonkwo’s clan had grown soft and weak because of the christians and that made Okonkwo's fear for his clan and culture. In ch 21 pg 183 it says “Okonkwo was deeply grieved. And it was not just personal grief. He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women”. This means that after christianity implemented the changes the people of Umuofia did nothing about it and that showed Okonkwo that his clan had turned …show more content…

And in the end he hanged himself because of the changes done by the christians and the fact his clan had grown so soft that they did nothing about the changes the christians made. Okonkwo’s response was a negative one because in the end he kills himself because of it. In ch 25 pg 208 Obierika says “That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia…”. This shows that Okonkwo, one of the greatest man in Umuofia committed such an abominable act in his culture, all because of the christians collision with the igbo

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