Things Fall Apart

by

Chinua Achebe

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Mr. Brown, the first white missionary to travel to Umuofia, institutes a policy of respect and compromise between the church and the clansmen. He engages in long religious discussions with Akunna in order to understand the Igbo traditions, and he builds a school and a hospital in Umuofia. Unlike Reverend Smith who arrives later, Mr. Brown avoids resorting to violence and harsh methods of enforcing church beliefs, attempting to use his understanding of the Igbo faith to convert clansmen.

Mr. Brown Quotes in Things Fall Apart

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Chapter 16 Quotes

He told them that the true God lived on high and that all men when they died went before Him for judgment. Evil men and all the heathen who in their blindness bowed to wood and stone were thrown into a fire that burned like palm-oil. But good men who worshipped the true God lived forever in His happy kingdom.

Related Characters: Mr. Brown
Related Symbols: Fire
Page Number: 145
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Mr. Brown Character Timeline in Things Fall Apart

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Chapter 21
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...into Umuofia. Even the religion is beginning to take hold due to the efforts of Mr. Brown , a white missionary who approaches conversion in a respectful and restrained manner, attempting to... (full context)
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Mr. Brown makes friends with some of the great men of the clan, and in one of... (full context)
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Mr. Brown uses his understanding to convert more clan members to the church. He builds a school... (full context)
Chapter 22
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Reverend Smith replaces Mr. Brown , and in contrast to Mr. Brown's policy of compromise, Mr. Smith encourages extreme acts... (full context)
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...the egwugwu. Reverend Smith refuses to move, but he cannot save his church. The church Mr. Brown built is burned to the ground, and the clan is momentarily pacified. (full context)