se outcasts are evil but he knows that the missionaries are taking them in and that they are growing. This is another reason why they were so successful. In conclusion, I think that Okonkwo killed himself because he saw that when his son became a christian that other people might look at him as an unsuccesful father. He saw this as a threat to his manhood and as a sign of weakness; this made him think that he was becoming more like the man that he despised. This is the only thing that Okonkwo could not handle, so he hung himself on a tree to end his misery., the missionaries brought with them new ways of life. These ways of life were much better for some people of the tribe. Achebe doesn't care much about the people who left the tribe, but he understands that the missionaries were successful in getting more people to join them. He also feels that they did a pretty good job with doing so and gathered many people who gave them more power. The Ibo tribe, and their religion, was broken up by the missionaries who came and brought with them better and more civilizes ways of life. I think that Achebe thoughts were wrong, if he saw that the missionaries were getting a lot of people to join their tribe I think he should have said something about the tribe becoming smaller and loosing power. He waited to long to say that the tribe was going downhill. But I do understand that he didn't want to say that the tribe was breaking up, he did not want to say that the missionaries were successful, but he couldn't help it, the were very successful. ...
