In the novel ,Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe, the protagonist Okonkwo had many challenges throughout his entire whole life. The many ups and downs Okonkwo had, labeled Okonkwo as an anti-hero. Okonkwo definitely wasn’t perfect but his intentions were good. An anti-hero is someone who does good and solves problems but lacks the characteristics of a stereotypical hero. Okonkwo displayed solutions of a hero but his plan towards those solutions showed him to be an anti-hero. Okonkwo’s actions in the book stemmed from his past. Unoka was not the best role model for his son, Okonkwo. Unoka did not make a name for himself and he was not a good father towards Okonkwo. “In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable
