Okonkwo's Change In Things Fall Apart

In the novel, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo is the protagonist, and the setting is the African Village of Umuofia. Moreover, the author develops Okonkwo’s character as strong, determined, and aggressive through the character’s conflicts and actions. These conflicts and actions appear throughout the first five chapters of the novel. In Umuofia, yams, a staple crop, are the citizens’ livelihoods. In relation to this, Okonkwo sowed his yam seeds, but a drought made the tendrils die. Furthermore, the drought lasted eight market weeks, which was torture for the Umuofia farmers. In the quote, “He had sown four hundred seeds when the rains dried up… the sisal rings were burned...He changed them everyday…,” Okonkwo worked tediously.