The white men, mainly the district commissioner, have tricked the villagers into coming to his headquarters and end up imprisoning them all. He demands a large ransom and after a while he hands the prisoners over to his court messengers. The messengers were corrupt so to speak and ended up inflicting violence on the prisoners and starving them to death, among other actions. The straw that breaks the camel's back occurs in the last paragraph. Colonization by the English leaves everyone in such overwhelming circumstances, especially the main character Okonkwo. In the last chapter, the twenty-fifth, Okonkwo takes his own life. He decides that the oppression brought on the tribe by the white man was too much to handle. Okonkwo, because the leader saw this as his fault, allowed this group of people to enter the tribe and “civilize” the tribe, which certainly did not happen. The fact that they did not speak the same language or practice the same customs further complicated matters. Instead of defending his tribe and rejecting colonization, Okonkwo commits the fatal act of suicide. In conclusion, this novel, although fictional, this novel, Things Fall Apart, reflects a huge cross-section of European colonization and the consequences that took place on the planet.