There are about 7.4 billion people in the world of today and every single one of those human beings are prone to make mistakes. Mistakes are actions that people believe to be wrong, unethical, or simply misguided. Some mistakes tend to be minor and only affect people personally. Such wrongdoings consist of breaking a friend’s trust or accidentally knocking over a vase, but nothing very drastic. Other mistakes are far more severe and serious which can actually turn into crimes. Crimes are serious matters that interfere with set laws of a land’s constitution. These offenses can be murdering a person or the burglary of a bank. The wide range of mistakes and crimes exist, but for every misguided action there is atonement. Atonement is to fix
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In Chinua Achebe’s novel, “Things Fall Apart,” the main protagonist, Okonkwo, commits a crime inadvertently. In Umuofia, the death of an elder occurs which is a big deal causing for a great ceremony to occur. During that ceremony, there is a big number of loud drums and cannons going off, but an accident transpires where Okonkwo unintentionally kills the elder’s son. The village of Umuofia finds the killing of another clansman to be a very serious offense; thus, Okonkwo is banished from his land for only seven years because the crime was female, or an accidental offense. Ultimately, Okonkwo ends up being exiled from his village and loses all of his wealth and success which leads to atonement because he learned to comprehend the severity of his …show more content…
Okonkwo lives in his obi with a cloud of rain over his head at all times. His despair was very visible to those who surrounded him, especially to his mother’s younger brother, Uchendu. Uchendu is his uncle and a very wise old man. Although Uchendu had offered Okonkwo his best welcome and given him yams with the help of his sons, Okonkwo was still very troubled and in melancholy. Eventually, Uchendu had grown tired of Okonkwo’s gloominess after he couldn’t help but to notice his consistent anguished behavior during the isa-ifi ceremony where his son was marrying a new bride. After the ceremony, Uchendu gathered all of his sons and daughters along with Okonkwo to discuss his nephew’s new participation and living in his mother clan. Uchendu directly address Okonkwo and gives him complicated questions to answer, but Okonkwo fails to give him correct replies. Uchendu then explains to Okonkwo about the way he is acting because of his exile. The elder uncle of Okonkwo describes the misery he sees in him and begins to question his desperation and pain when he says, “You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children,” Uchendu continues and describes his own life life, “I had six
In Chinua Achebe’s novel, “Things Fall Apart,” the main protagonist, Okonkwo, commits a crime inadvertently. In Umuofia, the death of an elder occurs which is a big deal causing for a great ceremony to occur. During that ceremony, there is a big number of loud drums and cannons going off, but an accident transpires where Okonkwo unintentionally kills the elder’s son. The village of Umuofia finds the killing of another clansman to be a very serious offense; thus, Okonkwo is banished from his land for only seven years because the crime was female, or an accidental offense. Ultimately, Okonkwo ends up being exiled from his village and loses all of his wealth and success which leads to atonement because he learned to comprehend the severity of his …show more content…
Okonkwo lives in his obi with a cloud of rain over his head at all times. His despair was very visible to those who surrounded him, especially to his mother’s younger brother, Uchendu. Uchendu is his uncle and a very wise old man. Although Uchendu had offered Okonkwo his best welcome and given him yams with the help of his sons, Okonkwo was still very troubled and in melancholy. Eventually, Uchendu had grown tired of Okonkwo’s gloominess after he couldn’t help but to notice his consistent anguished behavior during the isa-ifi ceremony where his son was marrying a new bride. After the ceremony, Uchendu gathered all of his sons and daughters along with Okonkwo to discuss his nephew’s new participation and living in his mother clan. Uchendu directly address Okonkwo and gives him complicated questions to answer, but Okonkwo fails to give him correct replies. Uchendu then explains to Okonkwo about the way he is acting because of his exile. The elder uncle of Okonkwo describes the misery he sees in him and begins to question his desperation and pain when he says, “You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children,” Uchendu continues and describes his own life life, “I had six