Arrow of God

“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe has a lot of unique characters, but the one that is the most unique and really makes the novel interesting is Okonkwo. Due to his frustrating childhood and exhilarating life, he really adds a lot to the story. Okonkwo may seem flawless, and in some ways he is, but in reality he has a lot of insecurity and worry on his plate. Throughout Okonkwo’s youth, he had a very troubling life. His father, Unoka, was a failure in every sense of the word. Unoka was a drunk

Think of all the chances you never took, competitions you never entered, and people you never asked out. There is a common factor between all of them and that is a fear of failure. This theme of a fear of failure throughout the driving force behind the main character, Okonkwo’s, decisions in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. From his earliest days seeing his dad waste his life away to seeing his entire culture fade away, Okonkwo does not want to be seen as a failure. From the very first

The meaning of life. An age old question which many consider the answer to be unknowable. Yet, it is still the topic of century long discussions. Chinua Achebe stated in a 1994 interview with Eleanor Wachtel, a Canadian broadcaster, that the meaning of life, the purpose, was to struggle . “So that’s my sense of the meaning of life. That’s really how I would put it, that we struggle, and because we struggle, that struggle has to be told, the story of that struggle has to be conveyed to another generation

Many people are converting into Christians do to their religious beliefs. The White Man’s supreme God is more acceptable in many aspects and forgiving. In the novel “Things Fall Apart” on page 155 it states, “These outcasts, or osu, seeing that the new religion welcomed twins and such abominations”. This is illustrating that the outcasts have converted

In “Things Fall Apart”, the author Chinua Achebe uses the character Unoka, who is Okonkwo unsuccessful father, and Ikemefuna, who was Okonkwo’s adopted son, to make Okonkwo a sympathetic character. Okonkwo has a lot of hatred towards Unoka so he puts a lot of effort to be the complete opposite of his father whereas with Ikemefuna he had created a strong bond and cared about him more than he did with his own son. Okonkwo has shown to be strong character who has made it a mission to be anything like

Okonkwo is the main character of this story “Things Fall Apart” and he is a man of title and strength. In the beginning of the story Okonkwo is said to be a fearless warrior who defeated the cat in a wrestling match. The cat is the strongest before Okonkwo arrive and that is because the cat never got his back to touch the ground in an wrestlting match, but OKonkwo is the only one that defeated the cat making he the strongest. Okonkwo is also strongest in intertribal war. He is fearless of the

Okonkwo chooses to take his own life because he realizes that the Christian church has taken over Umuofia and he doesn’t want to live in a world with anything different than his tribe and their customs and what he’s used to. When the church comes in with all their beliefs that are different from Okonkwo’s village, this upsets him, and then there is a chain of events that lead to him hanging himself. It all starts when Okonkwo is exiled for seven years because he accidentally killed someone. While

In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, the tragic hero, allowed his fear of failure to rule and ruin not only his life but those close to him. Eventually, his fear led to him committing suicide while his tribe lost its religion and culture and was overrun by Christians. Okonkwo’s hubris derived from his father, Unoka. Unoka was lazy, buried in debt, “womanly”, and irresponsible. Okonkwo was very ashamed because of his father’s reputation. To not be the man his father was, Okonkwo strived

saying never kill a man who says nothing. (pg 140) Okonkwo fears that in the future if the white man stays, his children will start worshiping the other god and not remembering him when he is dead. Once the christians came Okonkwo's son Nwoye started to join christians. Right along Nwoye the tribe started to be along with him worshiping the white man god. This is Okonkwo’s greatest fear of all which in the future would lead to his end. In the book Okonkwo’s greatest threat of all that led to death was

In the book Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe shows that through most of the part he shows that Okonkwo does not want to be anything like his father is . Okonkwo struggles with fear,showing weakness but that won’t stop him from being the brave person that he is . Okonkwo shows this through his actions and thoughts that everyone has a weakness to fear . Okonkwo , like any other person has a weakness. Okonkwo's life is ruled-over by "the fear of failure and of weakness". In the system where things or