Why things fall apart..

The Ibo people believed that the white people were evil because of what they did to the people in Abame. They knew that the white men destroyed their lands and the Ibo people were afraid that the same thing would happen to them. To prepare themselves they would have their weapons to make sure that they and their families were protected. When the white men arrived from the beginning they were trying to convert the Ibo people into Christianity. The white people brought Mr. Brown who was a missionary also and who built a church for his people to pray in. This was good for the white people because they had a place to pray, but for the Ibo people this very bad. This meant that more of the Ibo people who convert so that they could pray to the new gods. This made the Ibo people very angry and it was the complete opposite for the white people. This raised the white people’s spirits but it lowered the Ibo people’s spirits. Then the worse thing happened and it was when Enoch killed an egwugwu. This is the worse crime an Ibo person could commit. The action that the Ibo people took apart in was burning the church. After they burned down the church, everything went down hill. Six Ibo leaders were arrested, a head kotma was killed, and Okonkwo killed himself. Because of the white people, the Ibo tribe feel apart. Their families were converting to another religion and the whole tribe was falling apart, especially Okonkwo’s life. The white people destroyed the Ibo people’s lives even though the Ibo did nothing in the first place. People’s lives were changed forever and no one would be able to regain them and it was all because of the white people.