Things Fall Apart blog

The Ibo people’s response’s arrival and settlement of the white man was okay at the beginning. At first, the Ibo people couldn’t care less about the British. When Mr. Brown came the people liked him because he was kind and was helpful to the people of Umoufia. Also there was a trading post so the Ibo people could trade with other towns to get more money. Some of the Ibo people like the people from Abame were totally destroyed by the British. This shocked the people because they learned that if you kill a white man, then you would be killed. Then when the missionaries came, the Ibo people didn’t want to harm them because tey didn’t want to end up like Abame. The Ibo people weren’t paying much attention to the missionaries because they still believed very firmly in their religion. When Rev. Smith came, almost everyone didn’t like him as much as Mr. Brown. In the prisons, the people had to travail like doing stuff that they would never do, like getting rid of all of the weeds. Also, the court messengers (kotma) were very strict and didn’t like any of the people in the tribe.  These kotma beat the prisoners. The British were beating all of the native people who didn’t convert. The British view of Africans and their way of life was that their way of life is wrong because they (the British) were successful, so they thought that their way of life was the only right way. Also, they believed that their religion is that only real religion and that everyone should have the same religion. At the end, all of the Ibo tribes had fallen apart due to the British.