The Importance Of Religion In Things Fall Apart

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In conclusion, a society can benefit from a religion but can also fall apart from one. These both happen in Things Fall Apart, the Igbo tribe is affected by the missionaries promoting Christianity and broke down. Okonkwo committed suicide because he believed the church stole his way of being man and he would have been seen as a coward handing himself to the officials, this shows how the church even broke down a man. But also many people in the tribe found a new and positive way of life when they converted to Christianity. Many established value in themselves and a fresh start with there lives even though there past religion/society fell

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