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Things Fall Apart

king like old hens was the very depth of abomination. Suppose when he died all his male children decided to follow Nwoye's footsteps and abandon their ancestors? (142).

Achebe makes clear that on every level---religious, social, political, economic---Ibo life was disrupted by the white man. He is effective in getting these ideas across because he personalizes them in the anguished personality and soul of Okonkwo, with whom the reader identifies. Okonkwo resists, but to what end? The others are frightened or seduced into adopting the white man's ways---his God, his government, his technology, his economic arrangements. The white man instituted his law for the traditional African law: "They had built a court where the District Commissioner judged cases in ignorance" (160). As Obierika says: "Our own men . . . have joined the ranks of the stranger [and] h

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