2. Umuofia has seemed to change alot over the last seven years of Okonkwo's exile. The Christian Church had successfully made it's way into the culture and led many to their beliefs. The Christians had even made what the Igbo society considered a 'worthy man' join the religion. Also there had been a white government established.
3. The Court Messengers play the role of guarding the prison, which happend to be full of people who insulted the white man's law. The white man's law does not seem to tolerate other beliefs, and if one insults their beliefs they seem to convert them or hurt them. The white man's laws seem to be more harsh then the Igbo's.
4. When the white men had taken over it was too late for the Igbo people to take their land back because their own men had taken side with the white men. Most of the Igbo people had joined the white man's religion and upheld their government. Also it would be difficult because the people of Igbo who had sided with white men would turn other people against Okonkwo and Obierika. White man has been clever as to turning the Igbo people to his religion and ways of thinking. Obierika seems as the transitional figure between the clash of two cultures. Obierka knows he cannot do much to change the minds of the white men so he accepts what they have turned the old Igbo culture into, but he still follows his old ways of the Igbo culture.
5. Mr. Brown and Mr. Smith are two opposites. Mr. Brown is unagressive, more understanding towards the Igbo culture. He tries to find common ground within the two cultures. Mr. Smith is more uncompromising, every conversation seems like an argument and not a compromise with the Igbo people. Mr. Brown has a conversation about religion with Akunna. This conversations shows that the Igbo religion and Christianity are two different religions that believe in completely opposite beliefs. Also this conversation shows how Mr. Brown's character triumphs in being a compromising and unagressive man. Mr. Brown also understood that attacking the religion and it's people would do no good. Enoch had sent an uproar umongst the community, he had unmasked an egwugwu. Which had angered the egwugwu spirits, who had then terrorized the white man's church and burned it down. The burning down of the church had angered the white men which then, called fourth the head of the Igbo society, which included Okonkwo. Then the men were sentenced to jail until the cowries were paid off, but in the time they were in jail they were beaten and shaved by the white men. When the men were bailed Okonkwo seeked revenge. He could not handle his weakness for the white men. Than Okonkwo swore revenge on the white men, afterwards, he had shot the white man knowing that Umuofia would not go into war. He became severly depressed and hung himself.
6. People did not feel the same as Okonkwo did about the white men. The people of Umuofia were glad because of the trading stores that the white men had instituted. Religion and education seem to go hand in hand because the white men seem to be very charismatic with their teachings, and are so assured that their religion is 'right'. They seem to know more than the Igbo, or are percieved that way. The more the white men seem to know, it strengthens their control over the communities beliefs.
7. The District Commisioner tells the six men that they will talk about the incident that had taken place in his absence. Afterwards the Commisioner tells them that they must pay for their people's wrong doings. Okonkwo is furious and tells the men they should have killed the white man as he had plannned. Okonkwo had killed the messenger because he was the very messenger that had beat him heavily and he had developed hate for. Okonkwo later takes his own life, he does this because he had realized after killing one messenger, it would not make a difference in making his society better. Okonkw is isolated later because his suicide was conveyed as an 'offense against the Earth'. I do consider Okonkwo a tragic hero because his community considered him a noble being and looked up to him although he had many flaws that he was aware of but did not accept.
8. The District Commissioner decided to to write a story about Okonkwo, he thought atleast a paragraph would do. The District Comisioner would write a paragraph consisting of the reason for killing a messenger and killing himself. On the other hand Achebe had written a whole book on the trials and success of Okonkwo, this is because Achebe had more incite on Okonkwo's life, and wanted to show all the event that led him to his suicide.
9. After having read Things Fall Apart it seems as if the Igbo culture's failure to have excepted diversity seemed to be their downfall. It was not just that, the evangilists also had a part in the destruction of the community, the evangilists took over without any restraint. They had little to no consultation with the people about their ideas and motives. Also, within their own direcotry of people they did not seem to have communication or the same visions in mind for the Igbo culture. For both parties neither one was open to diversity. The Igbo people were not going to welcome it and the white men were surpressing the Igbo Society's culture and religion and had tried to over power the the people. The battle between changing and what was considered orthodox seemed to play a immense theme in the novel.
10. Achebe has inegrated traditional African/Igbo elements in his novel, the cross of Western literary and Igbo/African creative expression produce effects such as controversial diversity with the white men and the Igbo men. Such as religion.
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