The book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe tells of an Ibo village in Africa and its culture, along with how they are changed after the missionaries from England come to their villages. The missionaries impose their beliefs and religion onto the Ibo people through school and preaching the “right way to live”. The characters followed in this book are Okonkwo, an icon in the Ibo village; Nwoye, Okonkwo’s outsider son; and Obierika, one of Okonkwo’s good friends. This book helps to demonstrate many different character reactions to the introduction of new ideas and religion into their everyday life, such as in Okonkwo, who shows the internal struggle of facing the change happening in front of him to his friends and family. Okonkwo, being a set in his ways character, needed the consistency of his culture and village to validate who he was and everything…