Its saying like they don't want nothin to change and that no matter how hard they tryna change it its gone stay the same no matter how wrong/ bad it is.
Not Waving but Drowning Theme of Death. You'd think that there couldn't be a clearer distinction than the one between life and death, but "Not Waving but Drowning" goes out of its way to muddy the water, so to speak. The focus, after all, is a talking corpse who just won't shut up even though the living can't hear him.
The answer is Some villagers became Christian and others did not, so the villagers were no longer unified by long-established customs. because not everyone wanted to adapt another religion and different cultures and this caused problems between the villagers.
A has a Prepositional Phrase.
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