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ABSTRACT
Family ties keep crumbling because many people find it difficult to control their temper. In the long run, this essay has been able to critically study the portrayal of family disintegration in our primary texts. Religious intolerance that is fanaticism and poor conflict resolution in the family are identified as causes of family collapse or breakdown in society. In line with our theoretical background, it is evident that some of the key characters looked at in this study are temperamental especially on religious related issues. Eugene and Enitan's mother see their religious beliefs as what must be binding on everyone around therefore they confront those who do share their line of thoughts. They exalt their religion beyond limit and this seriously has a negative impact on their family members. Eugene's Western orientation makes him irrational such that he cannot dwell harmoniously within African traditional society. He quarrels with his family members who do not share his extreme view on Catholic faith. He disowns his father on the ground that he fails to follow him to church. In addition, he refuses to help his sister because she does not conform to his overbearing way of life. This is similar to Enitan’s mother too in Atta’s Everything Good Will Come. She attends a church whose doctrine sees non members as strangers. This makes her contradicts her husband from time to time. The teaching of her church and her total submission to it makes her daughter to see her as a weird woman and this becomes 33 toxic when it becomes obvious that she is being ruled by the passion of her church’s doctrine and not reason. On the whole, this essay has demonstrates that Atta's Everything Good Will Come and Adichie's Purple Hibiscus are texts dealing with intolerance which often leads to family collapse. Every individual has the right to adhere to any religion that suits his or her persuasion in life. It is clear from the above that a family can disintegrate when its members fail to live above individual religious view. Sociologically, religious fanaticism and lack of tolerance are identified in this study as factors that bring a family apart. The crisis in the two households examined show that the crisis in societies can be traced to broken homes. Homes are not just broken but different factors lead to it. In a nut shell, this essay opines that people should learn to tolerate others in order to promote strong harmony in homes and society at large.
