gentle‚ and interested in music and conversation (which‚ in a way‚ Okonkwo avoided by himself because he believes that those acts show unmanliness). Unoka dies of disrepute‚ leaving the town many unsettled debts. Okonkwo then gets haunted by these actions of his dead father. In response to that‚ he became exactly opposite of his father. He has raised a big family‚ became the clansman‚ warrior‚ farmer. All these traits possessed by Okonkwo shows masculinity or manliness (according to their
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Umuofia and Mbanto 4. Okonkwo was born the son of a white master and African mistress the son of a priestess the son of a rich man the son of a failure 5. In his youth‚ Okwonko gained fame in a boxing match‚ where he beat a boxer called the Fox in a wrestling match‚ where he beat a wrestler called the Cat in the Festival of the New Yam‚ when he played the flute in a clan meeting‚ where he argued eloquently for peace 6. Okonkwo’s father was named Ikemefuna Obierika Unoka Nwoye 7. Okonkwo has two wives four
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Chinua Achebe‚ the protagonist and main characters of the novel‚ Okonkwo‚ has just been sent into exile away from his land of Umuofia ‚ Nigeria . The crime he has committed to receive such a punishment is the sin of murder. While he is attending a funeral for a man named‚ Ogbuefi Ezeudu‚ Okonkwo’s gun accidentally explodes and kills Ezeudu’s sixteen-year-old son. Killing a clansman is a crime against their earth goddess‚ thus‚ Okonkwo and his family are sent into exile‚ being forced to go back to his
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character Okonkwo becomes alienated from the village because his own people have ostracized him. This experience that Okonkwo illuminates the work as whole as it serves to provide a lesson to the reader. Okonkwo becomes exiled from the world that he has grown up in. The good name he has built up his entire lifetime following the rules of his society has become a thing of the past. He must start over again to make up for the loss of his immense dignity. Feeling nothing but out of place Okonkwo decides
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to get it. This song relates to Things Fall Apart because in chapter 1‚ Okonkwo had a chance to show everybody he was stronger than his father was‚ and that chance was beating everyone at a wrestling match. He beat Amalinze the Cat who had been undefeated for seven years; this brought great honor to his village and made everyone respect Okonkwo. This also proved to Okonkwo that he was nothing like his weak father. Okonkwo is then able to attain a position of wealth and gain a good and respected
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man wanted to marry a woman‚ he had to pay the bride price to her relatives only if they accepted him. “My daughter’s suitor is coming today and I hope we will clinch the matter of the bride-price” (Achebe 65). This is from a conversation between Okonkwo and a friend. Women were given virtually no rights and their only purpose was to give birth‚ cook‚ and clean. Women had no say in tribe meetings and never allowed to talk back to their husbands. The agriculture of the Ibo society was also a main
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Okonkwo’s Fall In the novel things fall apart the new Christian religion makes Okonkwo feel that his identity will be threatened. It took his pride and made him feel as some of his characteristics were not superior as he thought they were. He is unable to adjust to the newcomers leads to his downfall. This example explains the way Colonization can have affects on its victims. Okonkwo felt as if he had loss what he has earned in his village. The British colonizing in his village made him feel‚
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the other village. They were to give them a strong man and a virgin woman. Okonkwo took in Ikemefuna. He became like a second son to
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author describes Ikemefuna in this manner‚ he writes about Okonkwo’s reputation and youth. He says‚ referring to Okonkwo‚ ‘He was a wealthy farmer and had two barns full of yams‚ and had just married his third wife’. By saying these words‚ the author wants to show Okonkwo as a man who earned his good reputation by hard work and not family wealth. He also writes ‘And so although Okonkwo was still young‚ he was already one of the greatest men of his time’ meaning that age was not the problem for him
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sent to live with Okonkwo’s family‚ and during the period of three years‚ Ikemefuna settles in and even difficult Okonkwo has come to fondly view him as his surrogate son. As chapter seven opens‚ Achebe describes Okonkwo’s household in a manner portrays the benefits of Ikemefuna’s arrival in the family. The family has grown to accept him‚ particularly Nwoye and Okonkwo himself. The tone is cheerful and everything seems to be going perfectly. Another detail that Achebe has added is the
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