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Peter Ntourntourekas Professor Joe Mealey EN 3515 20 September 2017 Okonkwo and Fear of the Feminine Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo, a tribal African yam farmer, through trials and tribulations that change both him and his tribe. The Umuofia clan values traits such as strength, confidence, crop success, and honor. Okonkwo exemplifies everything that the clan wants in a man, and he was well aware of it. He thrives on being the antithesis of the image of his father, Unoka, who was viewed

In recent years, there has been a growing trend toward studying abroad among young people. While some choose to stay in their comfort zone and finish the education in their motherland, others take on the opportunity and go study oversea. Although overseas study has its drawbacks, the problems are outnumbered by far by the positive aspects. The most obvious advantage to overseas study is real-life use of a different language. While people can study a foreign language in their own country, it cannot

Next Okonkwo ends up killing a clansman, which is portrayed as an accident. After committing this sin Okonkwo is faced with going to the motherland to be in exile for seven years. “But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme.” (Chapter 14, Achebe) Ironically enough, this quotes serves the confession of the positive

The battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in the World War Two , everything began when Adolf Hitler send the VI German Army of the Wehrmacht leaded by the prestigious General Friedrich Paulus and very intensive support of the Luftwaffe, they were sent to capture the city and keep moving forwards to the South-West Russian oil fields located in the Caucasus, Adolf Hitler though that it was necessary for the fuel of all the german war machine and the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler´s first

merica is one of the best choices of the people, who are not in a position to live in their own countries due to many reasons. Every year thousands of immigrants arrive the USA in legal and also by illegal channels. According to Maria L. Muniz essay, “Back, But not Home, “ she and her family had a hard time to be exiles from Cuba and she describes her feelings about returning to Cuba. Likewise, in ‘’ The All-American Slurp,” article that was written by Lensey Nomioka, said that she and her family

of the novel, it appears as though Achebe is prejudiced against women. However, in his crude remarks quoted in the novel by Okonkwo, Achebe is actually praising the female race. After Okonkwo accidentally kills a young boy, he is banished to his motherland. He takes this banishment as a direct insult to all of his values. During Okonwo's stay in Mbanta, one of his many wives has a child. Uchendu, Okonkwo's uncle, forces him to name the baby, Nneka- "Mother is Supreme." When Okonkwo refuses to call

In the book Sofia Petrovna, the author Lydia Chukovskaya writes about Sofia Petrovna and her dreadful experiences as a widowed mother during the Russian Stalinist Terror of the 1930s. There were four basic results of the Russian Stalinist Terror: first, it was a way of keeping people in order; second, it kept Stalin in power and stopped revolutions from forming, made people work harder to increase the output of the economy, and separated families as well as caused deaths of many innocent people due

Britain as they had the mentality that they would need the support of a strong empire to make their settlements develop (Doc I). Yet as the colonies realized that they could support themselves and still prosper, there was a detachment towards the motherland. In other words,

Aristotle says a tragic hero is someone who makes a decision that inadvertently brings an end to their life. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe the main character Okonkwo is considered a tragic hero, he faces all his challenges with great Courage and Pride. But all of his challenges he brought upon himself because of his tragic flaw, which is his hatred for his father Unoka. Unoka was a lazy drunk with no titles, this hatred drove Okonkwo to become a very good man. He became one of the greatest

across the three texts; it represents the construction of the colonial subjects’ racial identity, which impacts upon the relationships, and liminal spaces the female characters endure. Race marks a displacement for black migrants in the colonial motherland and racial