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Journal #6

After I read until the end of part II, I felt very confused. This story is very much like what happened in France. In __Things Fall Apart__, the christian missionaries come and gained support for Christianity a little by little. They were given the land of the 'evil forest', people opposed to them, but still people joined the church. Nwoye, Okonkwo's first son, becomes a christian. He attends church matters, goes to school, and he starts to learn other cultures. Just like this, the same thing happened to France during the Protestant Reformation. The missionaries represent the runaway protestants and the church attenders represent the rising population of protestants with in France! When half of the France's Catholics have converted to Protestants, the Protestants weren't the rich, strong, noble people. They were outcasts from the society who couldn't pay for ransoms and taxes, just like //osu// the outcasts.

In my opinion, Okonkwo hasn't changed one bit from the beginning of the novel. He is always very conservative, violent, and macho. When Okonkwo he hears that Nwoye has been spotted among the few christian, he was ferocious. When Okonwo saw him at his obi, he grabbed his neck and half chocked him. When Okonkwo saw people not taking actions he was disappointed. **He believed that men should be Masculine, Masculine towards all subjects**. Okonkwo's true nature of acting strong infront of others by showing physical force, hasn't been changed from the beginning. Also, his belief of being very traditional and killing is the way of showing his manliness

Question: Will Okonkwo later change and accept the missionaries? Will he be able to go back to his home town and maintain his rich place?