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Okonkwo Vs Ezinma
Okonkwo is a nice guy in the book Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe. Okonkwo has many different views on people for his own reasons. Of the people that are important in his life that is . He may be rough from time to time again but sometimes he can be a nice father and or friend in more ways than one. Okonkwo is a weird one we know that already though because in one moment he can be nice and firm then the next second later he can be a royal pain in the ass from angry to mad to his children Nwoye and Ezinma. Although Nwoye and Ezinma are his children Nwoye can be a real slacker from most moment on the other hand Ezinma does not mind doing work and even attempting to do a males a job even though she is female. Okonkwo’s 1st approach is not …show more content…
He treats Nwoye with little to no respect at all but more of an physical abuse type to him. “And he sought to correct him by constant nagging and beating”.(pg 12-13) That Nwoye is treated very different than Ezinma. Nwoye seems much more worthless so i can understand on were Okonkwo is coming from at the very least. That Okonkwo’s two children both have specific roles to fulfill in their household for their genders that is. This is showing us on how Okonkwo truly does care for his children but does not like laziness in his family he does not want them to end up like his father in the long …show more content…
Ezinma can be weird from time to time. Okonkwo giver her much more respect than Nwoye even though she is younger and does her work. That is why Ezinma is Okonkwo’s favorite daughter/child to have that’s why he thinks very highly of her. Apparently she likes to do labor like a man’s job. “Can i bring your chair for you” “No that is a boy’s job”. Like in a way mature that’s how he treats her with high regards to respect the rules. Their the same because they both have gender specific roles to fulfill for the household so that’s how they are connected so i understand that why Okonkwo thinks more of her daughter in a sympathetic way. This shows how much more he is on his daughter’s side from her aspect of doing things.”Okonkwo was especially fond of Ezinma”(pg44). This shows on how he is sympathetic that he can choose sides and or have soft side to people if they do what was told
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