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Examples Of Unoka In Things Fall Apart

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“Unoka, the grown up was a failure. He was poor and his wife and children had barely enough to eat. People laughed at him because he was a loafer”(Achebe 5).
In this passage, Okonkwo’s father, Unoka, is a lazy man with little motivation and will always try to find shortcuts to avoid work. In the quote above it bluntly states that Unoka is a failure. So much that he would rather his family go hungry than give up his idleness and work harder to produce more from his land. In the quote, it also refers to him as a loafer. The definition of a loafer is someone who is lazy or an idler. Achebe adds this to further signify Unoka’s idleness. In the beginning of the quote Achebe specifies that Unoka is grown up,

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