Sympathy For Things Fall Apart

After reading the end of Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, I had sympathy for the main character of the story; Okonkwo, who represents the vulnerability of a tribe by the coming of the Europeans and their Christianity rules, and the abuse of power and violence that the officials in the jail used to dehumanize the leaders of Umofia in the last chapters on the novel.
An unexpected ending of the novel took me by surprise, I believe Okonkwo is a victim from his own destiny and the circumstances in which he was born, and these events drive him to his tragic death at the very end of the story. My sympathy for Okonkwo was first present because throughout the whole story he is living and working in reaction of the fear to failure, and the idea of progress in his community, the possibility of become a person like his father who is not remembered as a wealthy man in the tribe, he was a friendly man mainly known for his kindness, distinctive that for Okonkwo was a sign of fragility.
Since the early age he has to make his own path to the world, struggling since the beginning he becomes a great warrior and a wealthy farmer with 3 wives, several children and one of the leaders of the tribe, success becomes an obsession for him, he turns into an emotionless and aggressive man, always making sure to not show debility or softness and being unable to enjoy his success to the fullest.
He distances himself from his community and only focuses on his own success. Even though throughout the novel he does some terrible things killing 3 persons in total, I still believe he’s being a victim of his own clan’s social statuses the pressure and fear that he feels, all of his beliefs and desires to be looked as a real man and not look as a coward in front of the other members of the clan make him responsible for the death of
Ikemefuna. He is probably the most faithful protector of his traditional beliefs throughout the story I believe he really tries to save his community but he cannot accept all these changes happening in his life and I think he has good intentions to help his tribe, and even though things not always went on his favor because he always found a way to screw thing up, my sympathy for this character grew when he spends much of his time building up wealth and position and his hard work is becomes pointless and removed when he accidentally kills one of the members of the clan and he is punished with the exile, obligating him to escape from Umofia to his motherland where he spends seven years, in Mbanta. When he returns to Umuofia he discovers that many of the people in his village have converted to Christianity, and things begin to fall apart for him when one of his sons Nwoye the eldest son, who feels seriously confused by his own communities’ practices is induced to become one of the Christianized people of Umuofia. After being in jail for a period of time where he suffers from abuse from the officials which dehumanize him and the other members of the clan his abhorrence and rancor only grows, and his ambition for revenge and desire to exterminate the Europeans becomes his only goal. After killing a colonial official with his machete, he expects support from his clan to defend him from the “white man”, when he realizes that he won’t have the support from them to declare war, he loses hope because he knew the consequences he would have to pay for killing the official, he gave up because he had no other choice but accept that the Christians had won. I feel like he has no other option than to kill himself or run away but he chooses to kill himself than live or to be judged in a world ruled by the religion of the “white man”. He was seeing as a strong warrior and he was respected, yet with the arrival of the Europeans he losses everything he becomes powerless.