My thoughts On His Suicide. !

I think that what Okwonko did was real stupid. I mean why would you kill yourself? I think that is the most selfish thing you can do. After all the things he did and been through I would not think he would kill himself. He did not even  like his own father. He beats his wives, he did not love all his children equally because he favored Ezinma more than the others because she knew just what he wanted and knew what kind of mood he was in. But still why kill yourself? I would want to stay on this Earth to at least be there for my kids. Would his kids even miss him though.? He just looks like a killer because he killed his "son" then hung himself. Okonkwo took the easy way out instead of facing his fears he would rather be seen to as weak. To me he should have just stayed on this Earth and worked out whatever he was scared of. Because of course it has to be a reason of why he did it. Not just because he felt like it. Right? Maybe he thought he was not doing all that he could do. Or maybe he knew that people was out to get him or something. I just think its stupid and crazy. If he was any type of real man he would not have to hide from the world, he would not have beaten his wives, and he most definitely would not have killed his self. Like that is just unbelievable to just do such a thing. To me Okonkwo was to worried about becoming his father, that he actually became worse than him. He messed up his self by trying to not be his father. Maybe if he would worry about him self this would not have happened. The people that followed him did not even think about moving the tree or taking him down. That should tell you who his real friends are also. Because he does not really have any. If he had any real friends they would have taken him down or moved the tree but maybe because he was so all in to him self he drove all the friends he had away? Okonkwo's father died with his pride but Okonkwo did not die with his pride. He died with disgrace, and he died weak. Therefore he did actually become his father. But if I was in his situation I probably would not have taken the easy way out. I probably would have worked through my problems and tried to fix everything instead of leaving it how it was. I really do not think Okonkwo know what a REAL MAN is, because if he did he would not have committed suicide.

Okonkwo's Suicide

For the first time in years Okonkwo was happy. But he was angry when the clan returned false on him and then became happy again with the destruction of the church.The District Commissioner sent his messengers to gather six leader and of course Okonkwo was one of them. The six of them had destroyed the church that's why they had to go see the District Commissioner, which he decided that they have to pay a fine of two hundred cowries. After the men said yes they got their heads shaved and were handcuffed. Okonkwo got mad and admittted that he was right when he said they should have killed the white man. Okonkwo's hosehold was very quiet and Ezinma had broken her 28 day visit to the family when she hear that her father was imprisoned and was going to be hanged. Okonkwo and the prisoners paid their fine and was set free, they were no longer worthy men. They went after Okonkwo and found him hanging from a tree dead. He committed Suicide.

Chapter 20-22

After Okonkwo came back from exile he had lost his place among the nine masked spirits who had justice in the clan, the chance to lead his warlike clan against the new religion, which had gained ground. Okonkwo was still mad at Nwoye because he had went with the missionaries  and called his five sons and had a tlk with them. Okonkwo told them that if they wanted to be a woman like Nwoye, they need to follow in behind Nwoye and he told them to do it while he was alive so he could curse them. He also said that if they turned against him when he die he would come back and haunted them and break their necks. He still loves Ezinma because she could always tell what mood he was in without him telling her. She grew up during his exile and became the prettiest girl and they called her beauty which her mom was called the same when she was younger.Okonkwo asked her and her sister to wait until they got back to Umuofia to marry.

Okonkwo's Traits

Some of his traits didn't lead him to be strong, but for him to don't want to be anything like his father made him to become worse than his father. He has killed, beats (Which is typically normal). But why did he end it the way he did? Maybe because he didn't have any excuses to back him up so he just gave up. In their land a man doesn't give up unless that man is weak, wants to be a failure. His traits led him to what he was about to face, but his traits didn't lead him to his ending. He did it all by himself. Okonkwo was known as strong, powerful, leader, but wasn't lazy at all. He was nothing like his father until the end were he became weak and a failure. Why would he kill himself? Was he just that selfish that we didn't know about or he just didn't wanna deal with all the power or maybe he didn't wanna be the leader anymore? In all his life was just pointless.

Igbo Tribe Before And After Colonization

Before European Colonization the Igbo speaking people weren't united as single people.They lived in small dispersed compounds in the rain forest. The compounds were built up of clusters of huts belonging to same people.The largest political unit was the village group averaging almost five thousand people who shared a common market, meeting place, common beliefs, and cults. The village groups were ruled by the elder people, influential wealthy men. The arrival of the British in the 1870s and increased encounters between the Igbo people and other Nigerians. They led a deepening sense of a district identity. The Igbo also proved decisive in their embrace of Christianity and Western Education. The Hausa and the Yoruba became sharer. The diversity within each of Nigeria's major ethnic groups slowly decreased and distinctions between the Igbo and other large groups. So they are a little different from each other but they changed a lot.

During Exile

Okonkwo was received by his mother kings man and taken to Mbanta during his exile. When a woman gets married the final ceremony is the Ceremony of Confessions.The bride is asked questions and she has to answer them truthfully. During his exile Obierika visited him and told him how Abame was wiped out and three months ago on a market day a little band of fugitives came into town and during the last planting season, a white man had appeared. They decided to kill him and they did it. But it was a mistake because you don't suppose to kill a man who didn't do anything, bad future would be bought among the village and the white man did not talk.Obierika said Okonkwo could thank him by killing of his sons or himself. Obierika came back with more upsetting news. The missionaries had come to Umuofia and that he had seen Nwoye with the missionaries.

The Missionaries

The missionaries came and there was six of them and one was a white man. He was telling them that they were all sons of God. He told them all about God, the creator of all the world, men and women. He also told them that they worship false gods. He told them that the good men who worship the true God lived forever in his kingdom. The missionaries are more like the people who walk around spreading Gods word, like Evangelist people. The missionaries spent their first four to five days in the market place and went into the village that morning to preach the gospel. The people gave the missionaries a piece of land to build their shrine which I thought was very generous of them. Obierika told Okonkwo that he had seen Nwoye with the missionaries and his father found out and got mad. Nwoye ended up going to their school to learn how to read and write and Mr. Kiaga's joy was very great. And Okonkwo thought that it wassn't worth fighting for Nwoye which is kind of wrong but that's their culture.