Okonkwo In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

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After the incident with the white missionary, the commissioner along with armed soldiers. They wanted to talk to Okonkwo and tell him what he had to do for the horrible thing he did. When they got there , there were men who were weeping in Okonkwo’s obi*. The commander asks who is okonkwo, to find out that Okonkwo had hung himself.
“Then they came to the tree from which Okonkwo's body was dangling, and they stopped dead“ ( PDF pg. 153 ).
Not being able to control everyone, Okonkwo did not know what to do. No one believed in the religion he still thought strongly of and no matter how hard he tried, they would not switch back over. When he found out that his son Nwoye had joined the missionaries that hurt him even more and caused him to get

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