Okonkwo In Things Fall Apart

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The dramatic and riveting story of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”

Puts points to the fact that no matter how great you think you are, you still need support and comfort or else you are doing it for no reason with no motive or reason to continue. Okonkwo’s rigid time throughout “Things Fall Apart” is emotionally filled with disappointment and anger. The Ibo warrior had just wanted to be better than his father, his father was a debtor and a lazy man. Okonkwo had beat his wife breaking the week of peace, killed Christians and accidently killed a child (exiled for 7 years). Destruction made Okonkwo happy and he found joy in destroying the westerner’s church but while he thinks he’s great, he has no
Chinua Achebe show the Jurassic difference between Okonkwo and his father Unoka that “Unoka, for that was his father’s name… was lazy and improvident and it was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow”. In the book “Things Fall Apart ‘ there are a lot of moments to show the difference between these two generations and I think that its great that Okonkwo is successful unlike his father, Many benefits come with success. Also Okonkwo’s father, Unoka had “owed every neighbor some money” unlike Okonkwo, Unoka would borrow and borrow until in major debt yet never pay it back, in fact he bought palm wine with all the money he would borrow or earn. But when it comes to Okonkwo, he works hard at his farm and makes good money while owing nobody. Okonkwo had just been a hard working young man that wanted to make up for his father’s mistakes, he did not want to be a
“Okonkwo had a feeling that was akin to happiness” because he had talked his clansmen into ravaging the Christian church that they had built on the evil forest, this was a violent act and his clansmen would usually not act unto this yet they did so this gave Okonkwo some will to fight. Also he had come back from exile knowing that the clan of Abame had been wiped out by the westerners letting him believe that he needed to defend his clan. Destruction had Okonkwo’s heart racing “ two days after the church, nothing had happened.” Okonkwo was happy for his destruction and that the westerners had not come back to daunt them yet. Throughout the book you will see that okonkwo is full of rage and tends to let his anger out at the wrong moments. I think that it's good that Okonkwo is defensive against the westerners, it's also great that Okonkwo has anger in him and knows that he is to defend his clan, even though most of his clansmen did not follow after they ransacked the