This is the best known book ever written by an African. In the beginning of this book it explained Okonkwo’s life before he was born. It was mostly about is unenergetic father, Unoka. His father was very lazy and wasn’t admired by anyone in the small community. Unoka passed away and didn't leave much for Okonkwo’s to live on. So this made Okonkwo want to work harder and make a good living and so he did. He was very young be respected by all within the Igbo community of Umuofia in eastern Nigeria. Okonkwo is known for his excellent effort in two intertribal wars. Since he contributed to these wars he holds two honorific titles. After that, Okonkwo and other mens from the community to hear a n important message. A powerful orator angrily tells …show more content…
They basically clear everything and get rid of old yam to prepare for the new and fresh yams, like starting over. Families are all invited and they are all excited. In contrast Okonkwo has a feeling that he is going to get bored of the festivity. Near the end of the preparations, Okonkwo is filled with anger when he came to discover that someone has killed one of his banana trees. His second wife, comes forward and admits that she has done it, Okonkwo beats her. Meanwhile the festival is still going on and it the second day, everyone gathers to watch men of the village and men of a neighboring village wrestle. As Okonkwo, Nwoye, and Ikemefuna are having a great day and they're all so happy. Until, Ezeudu, the oldest man of the village, request to speak to Okonkwo privately. He tells Okonkwo that Ikemefuna must be killed to replace the killing of the woman in the market a few years back. Ikemefuna is “set” free and is told to return home, he's confused and scared as he walks off. He turns back, and a men strikes the first blow him with a machete. Ikemefuna cries out to Okonkwo and he finishes Ikemefuna off with his machete. When Nwoye finds out that Ikemefuna is dead, everything changed. Okonkwo is traumatized and is restless after Ikemefuna's death. He disturbed by his actions towards the boy who was like a son to …show more content…
Suddenly, a banging at his door startled him and woke him up. His wife Ekwefi, is at the door claiming that Ezinma is dying. Shes her only living child from all of the other successful births. Okonkwo likes Ezinma and streats gathering leaves, grasses, and barks for medicine. After that situation, a gathering was being held at the village. People are scared all around but they seem to be next to people who have familiar treats. There is a A row of nine stools for the egwugwu, who represent the spirits of their ancestors. They hear cases that need a solution. Ekwefi comforts Ezinma by telling her stories. Okonkwo was having trouble sleeping again. The next day, the village celebrated the marriage of a Okonkwo's friend. There was a uri, it is a ritual in which the suitor gives palm oil to in the bride's immediate family, her relatives, and her closed ones. For the cenemory, the bride's mother is expected to prepare food for the whole village with the help of other women. The evening ended with a lot of dancing and laughter. When there is ever a death at night the sound of a drum and a cannon will announce the death. On that night, Ezeudu passed away. Okonkwo reminisce of what Ezeudu told him not to take part in Ikemefuna's killing. Everyone in the village comes together for the funeral. During the ceremony men dance, fire off guns, and everyone cries for Ezeudu. As the cenermory was coming to an
There were only 1,500 estimated people in the country of Nigeria in the late 1800s. In the book things fall apart most of all of them would know about Okonkwo the famous.In the book Things Fall Apart it follows the life of a famous man among the nine villages in Nigeria. Okonkwo had to go through many misfortunes as him and his culture is being tested by outsiders.In the beginning of the book it fallows mainly Okonkwo in his struggles then it goes into what he has to deal with when the missionaries. In the world, people have to uphold an image and that was what Okonkwo was doing and it slowly got harder and harder to keep the image and that is when things fell apart.
Despite his love for the culture in which he was born, Okonkwo, an esteemed member and warrior of the Ibo peoples of Africa, has a difficult time complying with the traditions of his tribe. Although he respects the tribe’s customs and the decisions of the elders, Okonkwo often makes rash decisions that bring him and his family unnecessary troubles. He strives to gain the tribe’s respect, as well as to compensate for his father’s “failed” life by portraying himself as the perfect man and warrior; however, his efforts toward honor seem to always end in dishonor. In a way, the reasons for his behavior come from deep within Okonkwo himself, not the culture of which he is a part. Compensation for character flaws turns in overcompensation, which places him out of touch with his community. In short, his sense of, and obsession for, self-image acts as a catalyst for his actions throughout the book.
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Okonkwo’s downfall was definitely inevitable. Okonkwo spent a majority of his life building up his reputation and striving to hold a high standard in his clan. Unfortunately, as time went on Okonkwo made some mistakes that tarnished his reputation. For example, one event that began his downfall was when in chapter thirteen Okonkwo was banished from his clan for seven years after he accidently killed Ezeudu’s sixteen-year-old son. There is no way the incident could have been avoided because Okonkwo’s gun went off accidentally and nothing could have been done to prevent the tragedy. Another occurrence that led to his downfall was in chapter twenty-four when he killed one of the missionaries’ court messengers. In Okonkwo’s eyes, the missionaries
Okonkwo wanted to become one of the greatest men in the Ibo tribe, but three unfortunate events occur bringing him closer to his end. Okonkwo was a proud, industrious figure who through hard work was able to elevate himself to a stature of respect and prominence in his community. The one major character flaw was that he was a man driven by his fear to extreme reactions. Okonkwo was petrified of inadequacy namely because his father was a complete and utter failure. This fear of shortcoming made him hate everything his father loved and represented: weakness, gentleness, and idleness. Who was Okonkwo, well Okonkwo was a hero and also he...
In the novel Things Fall Apart, by Achebe Chinua, the brutal downhill of Okonkwo is well displayed through his thoughts and actions. It becomes clear to the reader, Okonkwo is not who he thinks he is, he is soft and loving. He wears a mask and brings pride upon himself through the false belief and actions of whom he wants to be. In his search for the ideal and his future, he finds who he truly is, and reality finds him hanging. He was the strongest man who used his strength to drown the confusions of his life away. Nwoye’s father was a fearful coward, who could not find reality until reality found him.
Chapter 2- Normally on a moonlit night there are children playing and others walking around, but this particular night was quiet. The people in the nine villages fear the night any other time. That night a “daughter of Umuofia” was killed in a neighboring clan and Okonkwo wanted revenge. No one else agreed with him, instead they gave him Ikemefuna. Okonkwo
Fear of failure and weakness dominates Okonkwo throughout his life. At first this fear motivates him to rise to success by working diligently and doing everything his father did not do. However, even when Okonkwo establishes an honorable reputation, fear of failure continues to overwhelm him and drives him to perform acts that lead to his suffering. One example of this is when the men of Umuofia decide that Ikemefuna must be killed and Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna even though he is told not to partake in the killing of Ikemefuna. Okonkwo panics when Ikemefuna turns to him and cries for help, and without thinking, Okonkwo slays Ikemefuna with his machete. Okonkwo does this because in the split second where Ikemefuna runs to Okonkwo for protection, Okonkwo is overpowered with fear of being seen as weak and kills Ikemefuna. This is an unwise act on behalf of Okonkwo, and as a result, he suffers emotionally in the next few days. He enters a stage of depression and cannot eat or sleep as all he can think about is what he has done to Ikemefuna. It is at this point that things start t...
The foundation of Okonkwo’s fear of failure and weakness stems from the qualities possessed by Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, and his inability to succeed during his life. As a young boy, Okonkwo had always known and resented that his father was essentially the definition of a failure. Throughout Okonkwo’s childhood, he was constantly reminded of the fact that his father was unsuccessful: “... even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him his father was agbala” (Achebe 13). The word agbala has two different meanings, one referring to a woman and the other meaning a man who has taken no titles in the clan. Titles are an important part of the Ibo culture because they show a man’s achievement and success in the clan.
Okonkwo’s fear of unmanliness is kindled by his father, who was a lazy, unaccomplished man. Okonkwo strives to have a high status from a young age and eventually achieves it. He has a large family, many yams and is well known throughout the village for his valor. He raises his family by his mentality of manliness and is ...
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, tells a story about an unquestionably beloved tribe leader that goes through a series of tragic events that cause him to seem as if he was a poor tribe member. The story is about a member of the Igbo tribe names Okonkwo. He is a loved and looked up to him as the leader of the tribe. The book tells Okonkwo's story and how he goes from being such an amazing leader to one of the worst members of the tribe. It shows how he goes through so much and how he is faced with so much stress. When the white missionaries come, Okonkwo doesn’t know how to react.
In the book, Things Fall Apart, the author, Chinua Achebe, writes a story about a Okonkwo, a strong, wise, and influential leader within the Igbodo community of Umuofia in Eastern Nigeria. The genre of the work came from an excerpt which came from the novel. The excerpt from chapter seven is about, Ogbuefi Ezeudu, the oldest man of the village tells Okonkwo that Oracle has ordered that Ikemefuna must be killed. Later in the story, Okonkwo tells Ikemefuna that he has to go back home to Mbaino. While Ikemefuna is walking back towards his home, a group of guys attack Ikemefuna but in the end Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna with his own machete.
When Ikemefuna first arrives in Umuofia, he is housed with Okonkwo because Okonkwo is a great man in the village. He had reached his prime and was a man of wealth. Ikemefuna quickly befriended Okonkwo's eldest son and began calling Okonkwo "father." Soon, however, this seeming peace and civility in the village and the life of the villagers disappears. Okonkwo receives a message from the village elders that the boy, the town's innocence, must be killed off. The boy is lead off to the slaughter completely unaware of his fate, and with his "father" in the company of the killers. When a machete is drawn and the black pot atop Ikemefuna's head is cut down, the boy runs to the man he loved as father. It is he who, lacking the courage to confront the others with his love for the boy, draws his machete and...
Okonkwo is one of the respected leaders of his village. When a man from a neighboring village kills one of the women from Okonkwo 's village, a peace settlement requires the son of the man who killed the women to come live in Okonkwo 's village. Unfortunately, a decision is made to kill the boy. After the boy dies, Okonkwo accidentally kills Ezeudu’s son. For his crime, the village determines he must spend seven years in exile to appease the gods.
As an experienced warrior and respected leader in Umuofia, Okonkwo exemplifies his clan’s esteem for strength and virility. After accidently killing a clansman, Okonkwo, along with his three wives and eight children are temporarily banished to his mother’s native village, Mbanta. In Mbanta, Okonkwo and the other villagers are troubled by the arrival of European missionaries. The villagers allow the missionaries to build a church, which gains a considerable following of Ibo converts. Upon his return to Umuofia, Okonkwo discovers that Christianity has become prevalent in his homeland. Outraged by the Church’s disregard for their religion and customs, Okonkwo and other clan elders burn down the Church, and they are later arrested by the District Commissioner. Following the men’s release, the village holds a meeting, where Okonkwo kills a European messenger. Before the Europeans can arrest and execute him, Okonkwo hangs