Cultural Collision In Things Fall Apart

There are some parts of our lives that will bash or run into each other.Majority of the time it tends to be people’s ethnics and their traditions. Other cultures can widely affect your family's not variety of ways. One person may be from another country and the other from another. Everyone will have different perspective cultural traditions that they will have to face. Some of them have to sacrifice themselves in order to save another person's life. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is faced with a culture collision. He took it in a negative way and how he ends up re enacting to it is by just ignoring it or running away from it. But at the end he realized by ignoring or running away from it caused a huge problem towards his family in a negative way.

Different conflicts happens in culture collision.The people in the Ibo tribe either try to convert into Christianity or try to resist it. The colonization and “the arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village of Mbanta” (Achebe 138) had began to convert different traditions into their tribe tribe . This traditional change has effect all the characters in different ways. Okonkwo ignoring the new religious and political differences because he feels that they are not right. He also feels that he will not be manly if he
Some people take it in many ways. Some will get positive results and others will get negative results.So in the culture collision in Things Fall Apart by Chinue Achebe the main character Okonkwo had take the European culture collision in a negative way unlike Neoye who took it in a positive way. He thought the only way to get out of his sticky situation is by hanging himself. Instead of leaving your current culture for a new one expecting it to be better but it turn out to be the worse for him. If he didn't just ignore there presents or act with them in a bad way he would of took this culture collision in a positive