gral parts of the culture, parts which give it its special character as well as hold it together. This can even be said for the sacrifice of the twins which will later occur.
In the second part of the book the impact of the foreigners is shown to be tearing the village in two. Significantly, Okonkwo is gone from the village in exile, so that when he returns to a changed village, he is more than ever in the middle of the conflict, or rather, has one foot in each culture but no real stability in either. It is inevitable that violence will break out because it seems that the conflicts are simply too great to overcome in any reasonable way. It is also inevitable that the protagonist is at the center of the violence, first against another and then against himself.
Many non-fictional books have shown the destruction done to African life by exploitive European whites, but Achebe's novel is powerful because the reader can identify wi
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