In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo's confidence is changed from a strong, confident fighter to a poor hopeless man who knows he's alone within his tribe. Okonkwo is motivated by the fact that he will never be like his useless father.
When he was old enough, Okonkwo began farming his own yams because “he had to support his mother and two sisters ... And supporting his mother also meant supporting his father” p(25). Okonkwo works hard to overpower any signs of weakness. He is afraid of failure. Okonkwo always follows the rules. He beats his wives and children when he feels they get out of line. He is ferocious in his warrior attitude. He is a hard working man who cannot rest during times of festivities.
But when Okonkwo accidentally kills another member of Umuofia during a funeral ceremony, he gets banished from the tribe for seven years. After Okonkwo and his …show more content…
But this was not the case that instead of fighting, “it seemed as if the very soul of the tribe wept for a great evil that was coming – its own death” p(172), he once again despaired. The white men attracted enough members of Umuofia, specifically those who occupied the lowest positions and those who questioned the previous order, to severely weaken the village’s effectiveness and conviction. Those valued by the new institutions were those like Unoka. The new ways of Umuofia were too different from what Oknonkwo had established in his youth. Okonkwo met with the remaining clan members and had a meeting. Three messengers arrived and told them to disband, Okonkwo refused and decapitated one of them hoping his tribe members would kill the remaining two. But when the messengers escaped and he turned to see that his clan members were staring at him, he knew he was alone. The hope of keeping his clan's traditions vanished along with his will to fight. He knew he was alone. The next morning, they found his body hanging from a
When he was old enough, Okonkwo began farming his own yams because “he had to support his mother and two sisters ... And supporting his mother also meant supporting his father” p(25). Okonkwo works hard to overpower any signs of weakness. He is afraid of failure. Okonkwo always follows the rules. He beats his wives and children when he feels they get out of line. He is ferocious in his warrior attitude. He is a hard working man who cannot rest during times of festivities.
But when Okonkwo accidentally kills another member of Umuofia during a funeral ceremony, he gets banished from the tribe for seven years. After Okonkwo and his …show more content…
But this was not the case that instead of fighting, “it seemed as if the very soul of the tribe wept for a great evil that was coming – its own death” p(172), he once again despaired. The white men attracted enough members of Umuofia, specifically those who occupied the lowest positions and those who questioned the previous order, to severely weaken the village’s effectiveness and conviction. Those valued by the new institutions were those like Unoka. The new ways of Umuofia were too different from what Oknonkwo had established in his youth. Okonkwo met with the remaining clan members and had a meeting. Three messengers arrived and told them to disband, Okonkwo refused and decapitated one of them hoping his tribe members would kill the remaining two. But when the messengers escaped and he turned to see that his clan members were staring at him, he knew he was alone. The hope of keeping his clan's traditions vanished along with his will to fight. He knew he was alone. The next morning, they found his body hanging from a