Throughout the novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe writes about the African culture and customs. He never once forces their beliefs onto his readers he simple wishes for you to learn and understand the ways of his culture. During the novel it shows how woman suffer a great deal of loss for the woman of the culture, but in certain circumstances holds tremendous power and strength in their personal polygamist families, to their villages to their community of nine villages. Woman in the Ibo culture have experienced such drastic loses during their life time, starting at a young age, they are forced into a gender role lifestyle set by their elders and traditions. Many mothers would lose a child or many children in their times, many children