Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, concentrates primarily on the people and society of Mbanta. The people do not hold the society together; consequently, the Christians take over the land. Conflict arises when the converts begin discriminating against the god, stating that they are false. Anger arises, but nothing was done to fix the situation. Furthermore, the Mbanta people must not only regain control for their society, prevent situations on new settlers from destroying …

…their community. If situations arose in today’s society where the people let others walk over them or turned the other way when something bad happened there would be complete chaos. People would be able to get away with the crimes or disrespect they were portraying, and society would never get better but worse. Finally, if not only individuals but also society looked out for one another and stood for beliefs, less conflict would emerge.