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Things Fall Apart 7 - Online Term Paper

Things Fall Apart 7

After the stock market crash of 1929, hundreds of people ended their lives because they just couldn’t cope with the fact that they had lost such a great deal of money. Some had lost their life savings - but most hadn’t. In fact, most of them still had enough to live
better than a lot of lower-class families. But why had they committed suicide? Many prisoners who have been institutionalized for thirty or forty years have been known to commit suicide not long after they are released. Why? Isn’t freedom a better alternative
than imprisonment? The answer to both these questions is the same: CHANGE. Even if the change is for the better, a good number of people ...

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to Christianity, the change in daily life the new religion brings, and his frustration caused by his apathetic clansmen. Nwoye’s conversion to Christianity was a sharp blow to Okonkwo because the Christians are looked down upon as being insane. The missionary tells them that all of the Ibo’s gods are false images of wood and stone, and can do them no harm. Upon hearing
this, the men of Mbanta decide that “these men must be mad [for] how else could they saythat Ani and Amadiora were harmless? And Idemili and Ogwugwo too?”(146) The missionary goes on to tell them about the Holy Trinity. “At the end of it Okonkwo [is] fully convinced that the man [is] mad.”(147) Also, the first members of the new church
were the clan’s rejects, like Nnka who “[has] had four previous pregnancies and childbirths. but each time she [bears] twins, and they had been immediately thrown away. Her husband and his family were already becoming highly ...

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Added: 3/30/2008 07:18:25 AM
Category: English
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