Thursday, November 22, 2012

Who is Okonkwo?

Okonkwo fear is weakness and failure. He is also a leader of the Igbo community of Umuofia.. The author describes him as tall and huge with bushy eyebrows and a wide nose that gives him a severe look. His breathing is heavy and when he walks his heels barely touch the ground. He is re-owned as a wrestler, a fierce warrior and a successful farmer of yams which is a manly crop. He has three wives and many children who lives in huts on his compound. He is quick to anger and he despises his father because he was lazy and improvident and. So he sees his father as womanly. Okonkwo acts before he thinks. Okonkwo is advised not to participate in the murder of Ikemefuna, but actually kills him because he doesn't want to be seen as weak. But to me I don't think that it was called for because he was told to not participate in it.

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