There are plenty of ways you could have ended Things Fall Apart.
okonkwo commits suicide
Okonkwo suicides in the end due to the colonialist.
Depending on the version, this could be page 131, at the end of Part 1, Chapter 13.
It's a reference to the end of "things fall apart" by chinua Achebe.
It is very relevant to the story. Things do fall apart for the ways of life of the people in the story. Their traditions, customs, and religions and now dominated by the white missionaries. Many of their own have converted to Christianity. The main characters son has abandoned his fathers way of life. His fathers life has fell apart from what it had been. In the end he commits suicide.
more than likely a simple marriage. in a lavish marriage, it would ware off soon and things would fall apart. in a simple marriage, the end result is that things would get better.
Uchendu meant that being exiled was not the end of life. Okonkwo had not completely disgraced himself and could recover given time.
The "things" that fall apart in the book are really the Ibo way of life, and Okonkwo's life as he knows it. Okonkwo had built himself up to be a self made man, who had aspirations to be a leader in the tribe. In a incident that involves his gun blowing up and fatally wounding another clansman, he is banished to his motherland for 7 years. It is in this way that Okonkwo's life falls apart, in a split second. The way the Ibo culture and values fall apart is when Christianity comes to the villages. The missionaries come and try to convert some tribe members, when they have converted some people, the old tribe members began to question their old faith and belief. It came to the point that Enoch disrespected the Ibo tribe by unmasking an Egwugwu. By the doubt that the Christianity put into the minds of the Ibo clansman, it made the structure that the Ibo tribe was built on fall apart.The significant steps that cause Okonkwo's life to fall apart are:He is punished for beating his wife during the week of peace, when nobody is allowed to display violence.Ikemefuna, the boy he has taken care of, Okonkwo's ideal son, is sentenced to die.Okonkwo ends up delivering the killing blow to Ikemefuna.Okonkwo kills a clansman accidentally at the funeral from a gun misfunction.The impact of Christianity particularly Okonkwo's son, Nwoye, abandoning the Ibo faith to join Christianity.Okonkwo gets fed up with his fellow clansmen betraying the Ibo culture leads him to kill a colonialist messenger.Okonkwo kills himself at the end of the story.
"Things Fall Apart" is considered a tragedy because it follows the downfall of its protagonist, Okonkwo, whose tragic flaw (hubris or excessive pride) ultimately leads to his undoing. The novel also explores the tragic clash between traditional Igbo culture and colonial influence, resulting in the destruction of the Igbo way of life. The overall tone and themes of the novel contribute to its classification as a tragedy.
Some symbols in Things Fall Apart include the yams, which represent wealth and masculinity in the Igbo culture, the locusts symbolizing impending doom and change, and the drums representing communication and social gatherings.
At the end of the uri ceremony in "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo accidentally kills a clansman's son, which is a crime against the earth goddess. As punishment, Okonkwo and his family are exiled from the village for seven years. This event marks the beginning of Okonkwo's downfall and tragic end.
The Mayans forget to tell us that. The world will probably not end on December 21, 2012. They knew it was an important date because of the wobble that will occur on the Earth's axis. Weather may change or other such things but as in the Y2K scare, our civilizations did not fall apart as predicted. I suspect it will be the same with the Mayan warning.