many questions about the horrible ways of life the Ibo tribe had. Another thing that Achebe says is this, Nwoye was greatly puzzled" this tell us that he did not understand why those things were happening and that he was looking for an answer, which he got in the new religion. Then when the missionaries came, he saw a good way out of those ways of life and a way out of that tribe. This was like driving a dagger into Okonkwos heart, he watched his son turn against everything that he had tought him. This is a big factor in Okonkwos suicide. Achebe shows us, once again, another way that the missionaries were so successful is that they took all of the outcasts from the tribe to their new religion. All the people that were outcast from the tribe and had nowhere to go were brought in to their religion. This expanded them greatly. This gave them more power. At first the Ibo did not see and were not threatened when those people joined the missionaries. They felt that those people were no good and evil. But later on other people saw how good this religion is, and decided to join them and this broke up the Ibo Clan. For example when people shave their heads off they are kicked out of the clan, but then the missionaries come and tell them that they are not different from the other people. Achebe says, The Two outcasts shaved off their hair, and soon they were the strongest adherents of the new faith. And what was more, nearly all the osu in Mbanta followed their example. It was in fact one of them who in his zeal brought the church into serious conflicts with the clan a year later by killing the sacred python, the emanation of the god of water. This shows us that the missionaries were successful in getting all the outcasts of the tribe to there religion. When Achebe says, "soon they were the strongest adherents of the new faith" this shows us that the missionaries were very successful in getting the outcasts of the tribe. Achebe thinks that tho...
