Okonkwo's Struggle

While reading, I found myself sympathizing with Okonkwo. It's true he is very stubborn to any change at all, but I can understand his grief in the change of his people. It would be easy to just look at his situation and think that he is being ridiculous because there are several things that are off about their culture, but I found that if you look at through his perspective it becomes harder. This is a way of life that he has dedicated his whole life too. And I know if some outside group of people came in and started denouncing Christianity and  pushing people that follow that religion to believe it is nonsense, I would be very upset for my fellow Christians. After thinking on this I started to see Okonkwo as a different character, I started to sympathize with him a lot more than at first when I saw him as a stubborn man who was behind the times.