The common day problems that countries all around the world are facing may not seem as new of problems as they may seem. For example, in the article Putin’s circle, the dangerous rise of Kremlin hard-liners, by Simon Shuster it tells about how over in Communist country Russia, their leader president Putin is dealing with the uprising of the Kremlin, this problem can easily be compared with the problems Okonkwo faces with the catholic white men. While Okonkwo faces the difficulty of a different religion taking over, Putin has faced and continues to face the difficulty of running a country. Both leaders need to view the issue from another standpoint, but they refuse to cause the situation to not quite work to their advantage. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; the main character Okonkwo’s village is being taken over by “white men” who come to the village for land and slowly spread Christianity. The village people think nothing of it at first stating that the people would not live past three days in the evil forest and would be gone soon enough. But the men didn’t die so the villagers slowly started growing fearful. Meanwhile, Okonkwo’s son…show more content… After Okonkwo and a few other men from the village are captured and going to be hung by the missionaries for killing a messenger the village gives the required bail money but now see the white men as enemies because they are fearful that the men will kill them,
