Falling Apart

Things Fall Apart has kind of opened up my eyes and made me realize how different and even how harsh conditions can be around the world. Reading about the Ibo people displays resemblances and differences societies have whether poor or wealthy. Mostly what i have taken so far from Things fall Apart is that societies have their ways of surviving just like how we do and those ways shouldn't be forcibly changed for the better of the society. From interpretation i know that the "white men" will come and try to transform the Ibo society but things will "far apart." Even though the Ibo people might not be as civilized or as reasonable as us doesn't mean that by trying to change their ways of life will help. It is also clear from the reading that many of the priorities of the men are some what different from ours. The men's priorities in the Ibo society basically are yams, yams and yams. The food and wealth comes first and then family. Although it may somewhat seem this way in our society most everyone who is working hard to gain wealth is strictly doing it for the better of their family. This just isn't the same in Ibo society or at least with Okonkwo. Okonkwo seems to be focused on growing yams not strictly for his family but mainly for his reputation of being a man and never showing weakness. I hope to see this change in Okonkwo later in the story but still highly doubt it.