Things Fall Apart

Imagine your world starting to crumble and fall apart. The author of the book Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe has show many events of how things have fallen apart. The main character Okonkwo, is show as a masculine man, who in the end kills himself. There are many event that led up to Okonkwo’s fatal end, and those events are Okonkwo’s tragic flaws that got him banished from his village, and not respected by his clan. Okonkwo began to see things around him crumble into pieces, and began to fell he was the only one who wanted a war. In the event of Okonkwo’s downfall, Okonkwo becomes obsessed with the thought of going to war, possesses great pride in his masculinity, and fears becoming like his father. To begin with, Okonkwo was a man who was always looking for a chance to shed blood. In the book Achebe wrote “he turned to violence whenever he was angry and could not get his words out
As a reader reads deeper into the book Things Fall Apart they come to find out how strongly Okonkwo feels about being a very manly man. This is a major flaw of his, because wanting to seem masculine causes him to be blinded of want he is really doing and how it may affect others around him. For example, when Okonkwo’s adopted son Ikemefuna was set to be killed, Okonkwo heard him yell that some men were going to kill him, Okonkwo ran up and killed Ikemefuna himself. Okonkwo did this wretched act, so he would seem more masculine to the members of his clan. After he did this Nwoye disliked his father. In this action it shows how Okonkwo has affected someone around him. Okonkwo loves the feeling of being a man, and he feels that no one is as manly as him. Okonkwo feels that failing as a man means that he is not living up to his chi or his fate. Little does Okonkwo know that his fate is something