People Run Into Conflict

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People run into conflict everyday. This can lead to a good or bad outcome. A lot of the times however it leads to a bad outcome. Although it can lead to a good one it usually does not. I’m going to tell you how conflict usually has a negative impact especially to certain people.

In “Things Fall Apart” you see a lot of conflict throughout the book. When there’s conflict usually it has a bad outcome such as when okonkwo beats his children. The outcome will be bad for the children which eventually will be bad for okonkwo. After Okonkwo kills ekumafuna, Nwoye is scared of him and seems to break his bond with okonkwo. These conflicts make things bad at their home. Okonkwo tries to be strong during conflict so he kills ekumefuna and makes Nwoye

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