Throughout history, there have been many cases of people struggling to identify and deal with change and tradition, and this is no different in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Throughout much of the novel, Okonkwo, his family, and the villagers all experience this struggle. As the missionaries continue to live in the Wicked Forest, they repeatedly gain converts in the villages due to Igbo beliefs which consistently prove to be inaccurate. Okonkwo's son Nwoye converts due to confusion in what his people believe, and Okonkwo changes drastically as a person due to the arrival and actions of the missionaries. There are many themes evident in Things Fall Apart, but one of the most important is the struggle between change and tradition, in the sense that some people change, but others don't; this clearly has a negative impact on Okonkwo uses fear to keep his other children in the Igbo culture. He fears that if his family converts there will be no one to remember him when he dies. At the end of the story, Okonkwo reaches his breaking point; “They came to the tree from which Okonkwo's body was dangling and stopped suddenly” (Achebe 127). With everything changing around him, he reaches breaking point and hangs himself, even though it goes against Igbo tradition. In Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, the struggle between change and tradition is one of the most relevant issues. The Igbo villagers, Okonkwo and his son Nwoye, all experience this problem in many different ways. The villagers find their religion challenged, Okonkwo reaches his breaking point, and Nwoye finally finds what he believes in. People have struggled to identify and deal with change and tradition throughout history, and will continue to struggle with this problem throughout history.