In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Igbo tribe is dealing with cultural clashing in their native land due to Europeans bringing their own ideas and traditions and forcing the natives to adapt to their ways. The Europeans do this in several different ways. Achebe portrays a one-sided cultural clash through the Europeans putting an end to the sound of the Umuofian drums, missionaries’ methods of converting tribesmen to Christianity, and the eradication of other traditions such as family ties that were viewed at one point as critical to
In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the Igbo tribe is dealing with cultural clashing in their native land due to Europeans bringing their own ideas and traditions and forcing the natives to adapt to their ways. The Europeans do this in several different ways. Achebe portrays a one-sided cultural clash through the Europeans putting an end to the sound of the Umuofian drums, missionaries’ methods of converting tribesmen to Christianity, and the eradication of other traditions such as family ties that were viewed at one point as critical to