Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Umuofia is a village in Africa where Okonkwo lives with his three wives and several children. He is a strong man who is respected in the community. He has strong traditional beliefs and has firm convictions about what constitutes being a man and doing what a man would do. He frowns on any action he deems to be feminine when performed by another man. Okonkwo works hard to raise his sons to be like him and takes in a boy from another village as a trophy prize from a conflict they had, and admires the boy, bringing him up like his own son. Okonkwo participates in all of the rituals of his village and holds fast to their ways. But Okonkwo also makes mistakes and he takes the consequences of those mistakes seriously, maintaining all of the customs that are expected of him. When a band of missionaries sets up residence in his and surrounding villages, Okonkwo has to deal with these strangers and the new religion they bring to his people. His own son b...