For something to be continuity, the vast majority of people must take part in what is happening. For example, in To Kill a Mockingbird, racism was a recurring continuity, and in Things Fall Apart, picking sweet potatoes and praying to the gods were definitely both continuities. In each of these novels there are some characters who break away from continuity. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem, Scout and Atticus three very important characters break away from the continuity of racism. In fact, Scout even stopped a mob from lynching an African-American man. In Things Fall Apart, several people from Okonkwo's tribe leave the tribe to learn the ways of the white people. This story focuses on how, instead of opposing the continuities, he kills those who oppose the continuities. This demonstrates how individuals use different strategies to cope with continuities. It simply depends on whether or not the individual agrees with continuity. However, it is more difficult to identify continuities in society than to identify change, so more often an individual succumbs to continuities.