Emotions In Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart People emotions motivate how they act and what they do. In books some characters only have one emotion and act on their emotions. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo proves to be a flat character because he is always violent and angry.
In the beginning of the novel Okonkwo only shows anger and violence by almost killing his wife. Okonkwo had all this pent up anger and was looking for a way to take it out. Then he saw that the banana tree looked different and he thought that one of his wives killed it. He yelled at his wives to find out who killed the tree. One of his wives Ekwefi said she had trim the tree. It was not dyed at all. Then Okonkwo beat Ekwefi remarkably hard and then want his gun that did not fire well. Ekwefi made a joke about guns that do not fire then “He pressed the trigger and there was a loud accompanied by the wail.....there lay the woman …show more content…
The white people had came to their village to convert people to christianity. Then they started to take over the town. So the clan burns down the church but they had to go to court where they had to pay a fine of 200 calories. The messenger rises it to 250 so they could keep some. They kept them in court for a couple of days without food or water. Then they let them go free since they payed. Their was a meeting to discuss what they want to rid and they all wanted to go to war. Then they found their a white man into the crowd “ In a flash okonkwo drew his machete. The messaged crouched to avoid the blow. It was useless. Okonkwo's machete descended twice and the man’s head lay beside his uniformed body... He wipes his machete on the sand and went away.”(205). Okonkwo does not think twice about killing this man then just wipes the blood off and walked away. This proves that he is always violent and angry since he just killed him without any guilt. This is in the end of the book so he was no room to change