How would you feel if someone told you that you have to leave your family, friends, and home all behind? Emotions of depression, fear, or anger may have been some that you felt. That is what happen to Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This is just one of the many conflicts in the book that contributed and lead to the suicide of the tragic hero, Okonkwo. Throughout the novel, Okonkwo- the only wrestler that beat the cat, the fearless warrior, the one who brought five heads back to his village on his first war -changes his motives and his
