Cultural tension has always been around, whether people like it or not. The strain might be caused by race, religion or economics, but in the end it always leads to things falling apart. Cultural tensions arise in Chinua Achebe’s novel, when the European missionaries start settling into Africa in hopes to convert the Ibo people to Christianity. In Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart the cultural tension between the Ibo people and new European settlers causes abounding problems for Okonkwo our main character witch include family disputes and internal inquiring’s.
As missionaries came to settle were Okonkwo lives and spread their religion, Okonkwo is faced to realize that his eldest son Nwoye is not like him. Seeking to be accepted Nwoye converts to Christinaity and moves back to Umuofia where his father has been exiled for seven years. While Okonkwo may seem like he does not care that his son has left him we later learn that Okonkwo did care enough to feel sorrow for his departure, but not enough to keep it for long. As Okonkwo’s story continued he says he has, “overcome his sorrow. He had five other sons and he would bring them up in the way of the clan” (161). This shows that although Okonkwo may feel some discomfort in the idea of losing his son to the …show more content…
Since some people went back to phrasing Okonkwo as the mighty warrior he once was this leads Okonkwo to believing all is as it was before, but when Okonkwo later kills one of the Christian messengers and expects his people to follow his example he is again disappointed that, “Umuofia would not go to war” (189). The tension between the Ibo people and the Europeans lead Okonkwo to believing he had to be the beginning of a war and blinded him to the fact that no one else wanted
As missionaries came to settle were Okonkwo lives and spread their religion, Okonkwo is faced to realize that his eldest son Nwoye is not like him. Seeking to be accepted Nwoye converts to Christinaity and moves back to Umuofia where his father has been exiled for seven years. While Okonkwo may seem like he does not care that his son has left him we later learn that Okonkwo did care enough to feel sorrow for his departure, but not enough to keep it for long. As Okonkwo’s story continued he says he has, “overcome his sorrow. He had five other sons and he would bring them up in the way of the clan” (161). This shows that although Okonkwo may feel some discomfort in the idea of losing his son to the …show more content…
Since some people went back to phrasing Okonkwo as the mighty warrior he once was this leads Okonkwo to believing all is as it was before, but when Okonkwo later kills one of the Christian messengers and expects his people to follow his example he is again disappointed that, “Umuofia would not go to war” (189). The tension between the Ibo people and the Europeans lead Okonkwo to believing he had to be the beginning of a war and blinded him to the fact that no one else wanted