Okonkwo is driven to success by his desire to be nothing like his father. As a result‚ Okonkwo develops an obsession with masculinity and a fear of being seen as weak. When Okonkwo’s adopted son‚ Ikemefuna‚ was set to be killed‚ Okonkwo volunteered to join the group going to his execution. After Ikemefuna had been struck
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Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe Study Questions 1)- Achebe would choose to take the title of “The Second Coming” probably because the Igbo tribe falls apart inside due to social issues & more as it was said in the poem‚ “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”. This deepens/extends the meaning of Achebe’s title and novel because the main center of the Igbo tribe was losing its strength and conflicts were bound to happen because of this. 2)- Okonkwo was quite popular throughout the villages
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comforting Okonkwo when he is depressed. Like Nwoye‚ Obierika questions some of the tribe’s traditional strictures. Ekwefi- Okonkwo’s second wife‚ once the village beauty. Ekwefi ran away from her first husband to live with Okonkwo. Ezinma is her only surviving child‚ her other nine having died in infancy‚ and Ekwefi constantly fears that she will lose Ezinma as well. Ekwefi is good friends with Chielo‚ the priestess of the goddess Agbala. Nwoye- Okonkwo’s oldest son‚ whom he thinks is weak
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father and brother‚ Nwoye‚ inside my father’s obi‚ happily crunching on the delicious locusts. I thought to myself there could not have been a better day‚ earning my fathers approval for helping with the locusts‚ even though he never showed it‚ and getting to play with my brother Nwoye. My father would say Ikemefuna‚ work harder‚ and when he doesn’t say anything that is how I know I have done well. As I was relaxing‚ enjoying the locusts‚ and making simple conversation with Nwoye‚ an elderly man walked
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became so zealot that one of them killed the royal python‚ who in Mbanta and the surrounding clans was the most revered animal. One of the converts is directly close to Okonkwo himself; his son Nwoye. Even before the missionaries Nwoye was questioning the ways of the clan. After his father had killed Ikemefuna‚ a person who was given to Okonkwo for a crime his father had committed‚ has formed close bonds with the family‚ he felt begins to wonder the clan’s tradition of seeing twins as abominations as
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12 AP English Burnett Things Fall Apart Socratic Seminar Points of Discussion 1. Achebe begins the novel with an elaborate description of the central character Okonkwo. What do we learn about the values of Umuofians through this characterization? 2. Discuss Okonkwo as an Igbo heroic character: how does he work to achieve greatness as defined by his culture? How does he differ from Western heroes? What are Okonkwo’s strengths and weaknesses? 3. Describe
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Unfortunately‚ Okonkwo so strongly felt that everyone would respect him for making manly decisions in place of wise decisions that he would do things to cause his life to crumble. Ikemefunas death is an excellent example of Okonkwos immense fear of being effeminate‚ like his father. When the Oracle sentenced Ikemefuna to be killed‚
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Mbaino." Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand‚ good heart‚ but always fear of failure and weakness‚ like that of his father’s. Okonkwo endeavored so hard to be different from his father‚ Unoka‚ that he was unaware in the end his own son‚ Nwoye‚ too wants to be different from his father‚ Okonkwo. In chapter three Okonkwo is seen as an industrious farmer who impresses his clansmen with his hard work that he wins their trust. A farmer and friend gave to Okonkwo a total of 1200 seed yams
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“Things fall apart‚ the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” (Achebe). In his postcolonial tragedy‚ Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe writes about the collapse of the Ibo African tribal system due to the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. Achebe focuses on “both what was strong and what was weak in the African past” (Appiah). He traces back the roots of his people to the “moment when [they] lost [their] initiative to other people‚ to colonizers” (Appiah). Throughout
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THINGS FALL APART LENSES Chapters One through Three: Marxist Lens In chapters on through three of Things Fall Apart by China Achebe‚ it introduces the protagonist‚ Okonkwo. Okonkwo is a wealthy and highly regarded person in his village know as the Iguedo. Okonkwo’s main drive in life is to be manly and he actually fears weakness. He gained his title as a powerful warfighter by defeating Aluminize the cat in a wrestling match who‚ up until the fight with Okonkwo‚ was undefeated for seven years
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