Okonkwo's Failure

Conflicts can happen anytime and anywhere. The conflict can be anything from not agreeing with someone to having a serious vehicle wreck. The most important thing during a conflict is to keep your cool and have a good attitude during the situation, even if it wasn't caused by your doing. Afterwards you still need to keep your cool so that you don't say or doing anything stupid. In Things Fall Apart there are many, many conflicts. These conflicts mainly resort around the main character, Okonkwo. Okonkwo father was a failure and was in serious debt. He never wanted to be like his father, a failure, so he has strived all his life to be the complete opposite. Although, he has been very successful in his life he also has a very aggressive temper. He has beat his wife's, kids, and anyone who gets in his way. He resolves to violence immediately. He was going to go on a hunt after he had beat one of his wife’s, and while he was leaving another wife murmured “a gun that never shoots.” The way Okonkwo thinks, what she just said was very offensive. It causes his mind to tell him that since that gun never shoots, he never shoots any animals, which means that he is failing. His temper goes out of …show more content…
Okonkwo already is ashamed of Nwoye because Okonkwo feels like Nwoye is more like his grandfather than Okonkwo. This means that Okonkwo feels like Nwoye is a failure and is lazy. With all of this in Okonkwo’s head he goes to his son, grabs him around the neck choking Nwoye, while demanding where he has been. When Nwoye doesn't answer and Okonkwo realizes he is killing him he lets go. Choking your son does not resolve any kind of conflict, all it does is makes it worse. Nwoye realizes that being with his father is not where he needs to be and moves off to go to school to learn how to read and