Chinua Achebe teaches us, the readers that life is real struggle, you can feel happiness but yet pain at the same time. It doesn't matter if you are the king or a peasant, you will have moments in your life where you feel like nothing is going right, everything is falling apart. You feel like giving up because you know there is nothing more you can do. Well, that happens to many people, but eventually these so called “Bad Times” are going to pass because they don't last long. In those moments where you feel like crap, there is many things that can help you move on. Friends, family, religion and a lot more. The people of Umuofia value religion, culture, pride, and family above anything else. That could be why Chinua Achebe wrote the book “Things
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“Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten"(page 7). In “Things fall apart” proverbs are used to help understand a important character in a deeper meaning. By doing this Achebe shows us the similarities and differences between the protagonist Okonkwo, and the other important characters Nwoye and Obierika. Nwoye, who is Okonkwo's son.“Causes his father great anxiety for hisincipent laziness” (page 13). Okonkwo tries to teach his son to be more hardworking but no matter how hard his dad tried it did nothing at all. Nwoye is more of a mommy’s boy, he is “more womanly” than Okonkwo because he likes the stories his mother tells him. “When a mother cow is chewing grass its young watch its mouth”(page 53). Okonkwo does not want to be like his father but yet he is, he follows in his dads footsteps by not being the father figure his son needs, and wants. Okonkwo and Nwoye end up trying to have very different lives than what there fathers had. Okonkwo has the opposite life of his father by being a “wealthy farmer” and being hard working. Nwoye has the opposite life by being closer to the missionaries, Okonkwo did not like the church, he strongly opposed of
“Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten"(page 7). In “Things fall apart” proverbs are used to help understand a important character in a deeper meaning. By doing this Achebe shows us the similarities and differences between the protagonist Okonkwo, and the other important characters Nwoye and Obierika. Nwoye, who is Okonkwo's son.“Causes his father great anxiety for hisincipent laziness” (page 13). Okonkwo tries to teach his son to be more hardworking but no matter how hard his dad tried it did nothing at all. Nwoye is more of a mommy’s boy, he is “more womanly” than Okonkwo because he likes the stories his mother tells him. “When a mother cow is chewing grass its young watch its mouth”(page 53). Okonkwo does not want to be like his father but yet he is, he follows in his dads footsteps by not being the father figure his son needs, and wants. Okonkwo and Nwoye end up trying to have very different lives than what there fathers had. Okonkwo has the opposite life of his father by being a “wealthy farmer” and being hard working. Nwoye has the opposite life by being closer to the missionaries, Okonkwo did not like the church, he strongly opposed of