In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, he introduces the Christian missionaries in chapter 16 that had an effect on the Ibo culture as a whole. Some of the tribe took on the new culture as their own, while others pushed it away, saying that it was going to “break their clan and spread destruction among them.” (133) The person that was most affected from their coming was Okonkwo, the main character of the book. Even though he undergoes losing family, friends and also his culture losing its strength in numbers and faith, he refuses their influence and does not adapt to their ways. At the same time, it does make him change into the thing that he fears the most. The weakness that his father had socially and emotionally. As the missionaries are
