Okonkwo And Unoka Character Analysis

Would you consider someone who hates their father, and beats their wife, someone you want to call friend? It is these actions that fall from the main character from Things Fall Apart, Okwonkwo. Although Okwonkwo and Unoka were both very much respected in their youth, Okwonkwo was very wealthy as an adult, Unoka was not. Okwonkwo treats his wife with anger just as he did his father, while he was alive. Fortunately for the father, Okwonkwo could not beat him as he does his wife. Okwonkwo is very unsympathetic for the way he treats his family. He would go about disciplining them with his heavy hand to show them what they have done wrong, and he hated his father and every memory of him.
Unoka, as a young child, loved the nature. He was not hard working when he had grown up, although he was a very kind Hearted man. “He had often wandered around looking for a kite sailing leisurely against the blue sky.”Unoka was a man of nature, he respected the wild. When he was a child, he would wait patiently for the return of the birds which went out to hunt. He loved taking in the scenery of the land, and thought it was truly beautiful. “They swore to never lend him any more …show more content…
He hates his father, “Okwonkwo was ruled by one passion-to hate everything his father Unoka had loved.” Okwonkwo hated his father, and everything about him. He looks back into his past relations with the man, and he would not like what he sees. Unoka was a failure, but a gentle man. Okwonkwo, is a wealthy, but brutal man. He has taken it inside himself that he will do everything the opposite of how his father did. and he beats his wife. “When she returned he beat her heavily.” I have not known my father all my life, and 13 years later when he finally decides to join it, I accept him. I could never beat my wife as a means of discipline, no matter the circumstances. It is these reasons I can not