More and more people are becoming seriously overweight. Some people say that increasing the price of fattening foods will solve this problem. To what extend do you agree or disagree?

In the novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, one is quickly swept into the fictional story of an African

man

by the name of

Okonkwo

. The story, set in pre-colonial Africa, explores the impact of the white

man

on traditional African culture, as the white

man

quickly establishes his dominance over the continent.

Okonkwo

, distraught and horrified of what his tribe has become, decides to end his life and hang himself.

Okonkwo

decides to take his own life because he feels utterly useless in trying to fight for his traditions. Unlike him,

however

, there are possessions and people that help me in times of sadness and struggle. Because of the white

man

,

Okonkwo

’s clan becomes divided over their traditions, and

Okonkwo

decides to commit suicide. One day,

Okonkwo

’s son, Nwoye, realizing they know he is secretly Christian, runs away from home never to see his family again.

Okonkwo

later sits down by the fire thinking: “To abandon the gods of one’s father…

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as the very depth of abomination. Supposed when he died all his male children decided to follow in Nwoye’s steps and abandon their ancestors?

Okonkwo

felt a cold shudder run through him at the terrible prospect” (Achebe 153).

Okonkwo

is horrified by the idea that N

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and his sons will renounce the traditions of their tribe for what he sees as the white

man

’s evil ideas. He is a warrior, and whenever he encounters a threat, his instinct is to quickly silence and stop it. H

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the problems are far more internal, and he has a much harder time fighting it. Because of

this

new kind of “warfare”,

Okonkwo

cannot keep his son from becoming Christian and it makes him feel helpless, for all he can do is watch his son walk away.

Thus

, he despairs when he thinks of Nwoye passing on the white

man

’s ideas, realizing there is nothing he can do to stop it. The problem escalates when the Christians begin converting larger amounts of people in the villages. The villagers gather in the meeting place discussing what to do about the threat of the white

man

when m

essengers

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the messengers

are spotted trying to halt the meeting, and so

Okonkwo

quickly kills one of them: “

Okonkwo

stood looking at the dead

man

. He knew that Umuofia would not go to war…

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ecause they had let the other messengers escape. They had broken into tumult

instead

of action” (Achebe 205).

Okonkwo

realizes in that moment that his clan has betrayed him; they refuse to go to war.