country and the other from another. Everyone will have different perspective cultural traditions that they will have to face. Some of them have to sacrifice themselves in order to save another person’s life. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ Okonkwo is faced with a culture collision. He took it in a negative way and how he ends up re enacting to it is by just ignoring it or running away from it. But at the end he realized by ignoring or running away from it caused a huge problem towards his family
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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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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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intentions. Okonkwo does not have any true closeness towards Nwoye‚ therefore Nwoye decides to contravene his father’s wishes‚ and join the Christian religion. Children who don’t seem too fond of their parents‚ don’t really care what their parents think about any situation. This example is supported by the relationship’s distance between Nwoye and Okonkwo‚ seeing that Okonkwo beats Nwoye constantly and therefore creating that disturbance in their relationship. Nwoye did exactly what Okonkwo didn’t desire
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are not allowed to sew yams‚ for crops but are given different foods to grow. The yam is simple‚ but requires plenty of tending if it ti yield a successful profit. The first thing that okonkwo did when he left his own to try and become a man was to buy yam seeds in order to make a name for himself. When Okonkwo is banished from the tribe he is stripped of his compound as well as hisyam storage‚ or in other words his masculinity. Another such examples would be the locusts‚ the locusts descent upon
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on for days. 2nd Paragraph Ikemefuna had to stay with Okonkwo for three years but he could hardly imagine that Okonkwo was not his real father. “He had never been fond of his real father‚ but after staying with Okonkwo for few years he had become very distant indeed”. As the time passed he thinks that would he be able to recognize his mother and sister‚ because her sister must have grown quite big. He was talking about all like how Okonkwo took care of him so well‚ about Nwoye and his mother‚ and
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religion since it was an offer of a more harmonious option‚ unlike his father’s life‚ His inspiration of Okonkwo through Ikemefuna died when Ikemefuna left‚ but Christianity would be a new inspiration for Nwoye to find himself. My attention broke away from Nwoye when rough falling feet dismantled the silence. Nwoye’s light eyes diverted from the structure onto his ferocious father. Okonkwo was running on the other side of the path from where his biological
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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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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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