How Do People Handle Conflict In Things Fall Apart

A person is defined by the he or she handles conflict. Some run in fear of retaliation of the other person. While some go all in and confront the person of what they have done. There are various ways that people can handle conflict. There also very many outcomes to conflicts if they are not handled in the right way. This has been shown or told to me throughout my whole life. This is also prevalent in Things Fall Apart. In Things Fall Apart the main character Okonkwo is always in some conflict. In one part of the book his wife says that he is a bad shoot. This makes him very angry and it starts a conflict. In retaliation he decides that it is a good idea for him to shoot at her. This prove that Okonkwo is a hot head and is not very good in conflict. He doesn’t think through his actions and he almost kills one of his wives. It also proved that he is a bad shoot because he missed. He gets punished for his actions, but it is a little light for trying to kill your wife. He has to do a sacrifice to the Earth God because he upset her. …show more content…
I don’t like conflict at all. In my background there was a lot of conflict from when I was a young age. This made me realize that nothing good ever comes from it. It has made it to where I avoid it a all cost. I will tell people what they want to hear, so it will not end up into a argument. One time my friend and I got into a conflict over something very silly. He wanted to try and talk about it, but being the way I am I wouldn’t. I knew that it would end up with us fighting, so I tried to avoid it. This went on for like two months, and finally realized that I couldn’t avoid it anymore. We talked it out and everything was