etely opposite of his father's life. Even though they tookcompletely different paths in life, their paths led them to the same place.The reason that the Ibo tribe had changed so much while Okonkwo was in exilefor the seven years, was the arrival of the missionaries in Africa. The missionariesaccepted people who the Africans believed to be outcasts. The Africans thought thatthese people they thought to be outcasts would bring bad luck to the missionaries. Theyalso tried to jinx the missionaries by giving them the evil forest to build their churches. When the missionaries were able to survive in the evil forest with the outcasts, theAfricans thought that the god of the missionaries was more powerful than their gods andancestors. This led many African people to convert to Christianity. Okonkwo could notstand the missionaries, and thought that the Africans should kill them and drive them outof Africa. But he was the only one in the Ibo tribe who felt this way. He tried to convincehis fellow tribesmen to go to way against the missionaries, but the would no. This is whatcaused Okonkwo to kill the guard, who was a fellow clansman and eventually himself.Another of the main ideas going on in the book Things Fall Apart is the differencebetween communal aspects and individual aspects in a traditional African society. Itseemed to me that there were both some communal aspects and individual aspects in theIbo tribe. The community is very important to the survival of the tribe and the peopleoften work together for the betterment of the tribe. There are also individual aspects inthe Ibo society. Each person has his own chi, or personal god. This personal god is towatch over a person and protect them. Some people have a stronger chi than others, andthey will achieve a higher standing in the society. This is very important to some of thepeople in the tribe, and Okonkwo is one of those people. He does a lot to help better theIbo society, ...
