The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, revolves around the strong, masculine tribesman, Okonkwo, living in a small village in Nigeria . In the first half of his story, he recounts Okonkwo's slow fall into his tribe's society. Okonkowo, the incredible wrestler who started the undefeated “Amalinze the Cat,” had it all. Until the death of a boy who was like another son to him made him feel like a withered old woman and changed the way he lived. Things started to get worse when European settlers began colonizing his tribe's lands and converting his tribe to their religion. Okonkwo tries to stop his family from converting, but that doesn't stop the settlers. So, Okonkwo simply watches his world disappear. In this novel, there is an important metaphor that Achebe says: "Let the kite perch, and let the eagle perch too. If one says no to the other, let its wing break. " (Achebe p. 19). The meaning of this metaphor is that there should be a freedom that does not destroy freedom. The connection with the story is that the fall of Okonkwo and his tribe at the hands of the European settler...