Things Fall Apart: The Mindet Of Modern Day People

To often then not, people in the world today will look at the cause of what they are doing instead of how they are doing it or the effects that this cause could have on others. They look at the rewards of the end goal but do not account for everything that one has to do to reach that goal. People get set in their beliefs and do not want to change their ways, and in the book Things
Fall Apart, you can clearly see how people get set in their ways. Two concepts from the book
Cosmopolitanism, are the mindset of modern day people and how people will always disagree.
Until the white people in the book Things Fall Apart stop failing to understand that because of a person’s mindset and the fact that people will always disagree, there will always be conflict.
This new form of this modern mindset did not just come about for no reason, and that brings me to my second concept, which is people always disagree.
It is not usual for people to think about how or why people disagree with each other because that has come to play such a role in everyone’s everyday life. Whether someone is thinking to himself how the other person is wrong or if they are verbally expressing it, disagreement happens everyday, to everyone. In the book Things Fall Apart, The big disagreement is between the white people and Okonkwo. The white people bring in this new religion and do not understand how people in the village, especially Okonkwo, are not super excited about it. “In the end, though, with facts as with values, nothing guarantees that we will be able to persuade everyone else of our view” (pg 44). This is what the white people did not understand, how everyone always disagrees in some way, shape, or form. Whether their reasons are clear and rational or completely obscure, people will always disagree. In the book, some of the villagers disagree with this new religion and faith because it goes against their traditions, customs, and