Things Fall Apart Compare And Contrast Essay

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In both books, “Thing Fall Apart” and “Krik? Krak!”, many characters are defeated but there are two characters which share the same pain. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe which takes place in 1900’s Nigeria, is a novel about a guy named Okonkwo who goes through different obstacles that lead to his downfall. Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart who commits suicide because he couldn’t deal being controlled by the white men. The second piece of literature, Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat which takes place in Haiti and New York is a Haitian-American Fiction and one of the stories concerns a character named Guy who lives a normal life with his family but doesn’t how he himself is like. Guy commits suicide because he does not believe he is a man. In both books Guy and Okonkwo both go through something that made them commit suicide.
In the book “Things Fall Apart”, Okonkwo is defeated by the White Men because he couldn't deal with the pain of being control so he decide to kill himself. In this chapter the Commissioner and Obierkia walk in on what Okonkwo did to himself after knowing he is not in control of his village anymore. The narrator states, “Then they came to the tree from which. Okonkwo’s body was dangling, and they stopped dead”(Achebe 207). Okonkwo couldn’t deal with the pain of being control by some on who should rule over him and his village. …show more content…

Krak!” both characters Okonkwo and Guy are defeated by someone who was in power and they didn't like it so they commit suicide. Both characters have trouble containing there man hood which is very important were they live. Okonkwo killed and killed a kid by accident and that is called a women crime and to Okonkwo it destroyed his manhood which was everything to him. Guy never believed he was a man because he was never free and he felt like if he died he would be free. Both characters believe that there manhood were destroy or not there so they felt like there was know point on

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