Connection to Religion

Religion is a big part of this novel especially near the end of the novel. They strongly believe in many gods that are responsible for various things like the earth or rain. But near the end missionaries come and try to convert the tribes. They built a church and told the people about god and the Christian religion and how their ways are wrong and sinful. This causes much controversy in the tribes and even the suicide of Okonkwo. In this tribe suicide is not acceptable and looked down on but he did it because he killed a man from the government of the new religion. I thin the author is showing that some people are so against changing their ways that they would go against their morals and beliefs to bring things back to normal.