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Imagine someone coming into your home and they change everything that at the end nothing really seems familiar. Imagine someone taking away your friends and family from you just so they can have them especially because they liked the same thing or had the same beliefs. Well that feeling is what Okonkwo felt when the white men came into their land and brought and shared their new beliefs and laws. Okonkwo came back to Umuofia after being exiled for 7 years and nothing was really familiar anymore. The white men came to Umuofia and changed the rules and brought in their new religion to the clan. Now all that Okonkwo and the villagers want is for the missionaries to leave back to their own land. Okonkwo will try his best to get everything back to how it use to be but Okonkwo makes some actions that really affects the outcome of the story.
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Okonkwo is an aggressive warrior that is an important member to the clan and his morals are to be a man, to not act as a female, to be strong, and to protect what is his. An example that supports Okonkwo’s characteristics about manliness and everything else, in the book, Things Fall Apart, it states, “Why did they not fight back? Had they no guns and machetes? We would be cowards to compare ourselves with the men of Abame.”(pg.175 para.6) In the book it also states, “We must fight these men and drive them from the land.”(pg.176;first sentence on page) In this piece of evidence Okonkwo is talking about protecting and fight for his land, which is another characteristic of his, being

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