Thesis Proposal

In the novel Things fall apart, it takes you through the life of a village in Nigeria. The constant fight between old tradition and new tradition. Okonkwo wanted rituals and culture to stay the same. He thought and believed that they way things were being done was the right way. At this time the white man started coming into near villages and started church's. This brought in religion and changing some of the old customs and ways. Okonkwo was sent to live in another village for a crime that he had committed. When he came back his village was run be the white man and the church. I want to write my essay on how religion effects us and our culture. What role it takes in our lives as a community and as a whole. What religion does on our old traditions and beliefs.