characters/setting/achebe's monster

1) The characters of my problem would just be me because I am the one trying to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. It is something that I must figure out for myself and no one else can decide it for me. I guess the setting would be where I live, here at UCSC and back at my hometown.

2) I think that Achebe's monster in his novel would be the laws that are imposed on the Nigerians and I also think that Okonkwo is a monster in himself. When the white men come to take over the people of Nigeria and set up churches and their government and try to convert them they are breaking apart everything that had been there before. Families and friends were torn apart because of new views imposed by the white men. I also think that many of the things that happened to Okonkwo were because of his own actions. He was so filled with anger and so focused on not being anything like his father that he wouldnt allow himself to show any compassion towards anyone. He even killed his "son" Ikemefuna because of he was worried that others would see him as a coward if he didnt. In the end, everything in Okonkwo's life fell apart, partly because of his actions and partly because of the white men who came to take over.