Okonkwo's Father

In this book, they talk about Okonkwo’s father, wives, children, and religion. Okonkwo is violent, wealthy, and a worrier of his village, Umuofia. Okonkwo’s biggest fear is to do not be weak or coward like his father, Unoka who left the village unsalted, so he tries to avoid being like his father by being violent and beating his wife. Okonkwo has a twelve-year-old son that Okonkwo is afraid that he will end up like his father, Unoka. Umuofia wins a fifteen year- old kid, so Okonkwo decides to take him. During the week of peace, Okonkwo beats his youngest wife, Ojiugo to break the week of peace but that shocked his community because it is supposed to be the week of peace, not violence. Ikemefuna stays with Okonkwo’s family for three years and Nwoye look up for him and for him whenever he needs him. …show more content…
Okonkwo attempts to lie to his son by telling him they are going to send him back to the village. Okonkwo and his family go into exile for seven years for the killing of Ogbuefi Ezeudu; when Okonkwo comes back, he gets shocked by seeing his son, Nwoye converts to Christianity, and he always wishes if his daughter Ezinma were his son. The missionaries arrived at Mbanta. Mr. Brown starts to tell people that they are worshiping wrong by the help of the interpreter, Mr. Kiaga and that there is only one God, but they do not understand. Later on, Mr. Brow gets sick, so they replace him with Mr. Smith, a strict man and the opposite of Mr. Brown with the way he treats hid people. The egwugwu then burn the church. "The pacification of the primitive tribes of the lower Niger", at the end the writer thinks it is interesting to write a paragraph about Okonkwo's story and already choose the