How The Way People React To Conflict In Things Fall Apart

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Conflict There are a lot of different ways people react to conflict, and the way they react really depend on the person.Some people might act in retaliation, fear, or even love. There is a lot of conflict in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, and the way the people react to it has a very big impact on the story in both negative and positive ways.
One of the examples I said was a reaction to conflict is retaliation, and we have all seen someone who responds to conflict in this way. In Things Fall Apart that person is Okonkwo, and he has a problem with looking weak, so he hides his conflicting heart with anger and violence. People act in retaliation when faced with a conflict because that are scared of what would happen if they don’t, and this shows through with Okonkwo because he is afraid of becoming the same as his father. In the end his reaction did end in a very negative way and even cost him his life, and it also affected all the people around him.
The next reaction I proposed was one of fear, and I put fear as a reaction because I have had this reaction myself. It happened to me about two years ago and it has stuck with me to this day. I was picked
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This kind of love is the best reaction to conflict because this kind of love contains every possible way to solve conflict, it has compassion, understanding, comfort, encouragement, support, and even gratitude. I have heard of people with is rare quality, and I have even read about a person who is the embodiment of the word itself. The person I speak of comes from the religion of christianity, and is known as Jesus. Throughout the new testament he is faced with brutal conflict and only ever answers it with love. This affected the people around him in the best ways, and it made people react to conflict with love

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