The Rise and Fall of Okonkwo

The novel, Things F all told Apart, is about the insurrection and the fall of a Nigerian man, Okonkwo, and the Ibo culture. Okonkwo was a respected, influential attracter in one of the golf club villages in the Ibo community; he was also a hand-to-hand struggle champion. Okonkwo has many assets to his character that could be viewed as faults or worthy character traits. Some of his traits hence develop into weaknesses by means of the packaging of the novel. Okonkwo has a fear of weakness, a fear that stems from his father-who was lazy and improvident. Unoka was apprehension of as a bereavement and the laughing stock because he was a loafer. He was real poor and could barely victuals his wife and kids. He would get money from others and neer deport them back; the people swore to never lend him money again. Okonkwo was intractable to gain bigger titles for himself and to draw a more powerful and wealthier man in maliciousness of his fathers weakness. On the other hand , there is a conflict between the handed-down society of Umuofia and the new tradition brought by the whites. Okonkwo has more weaknesses instead than strengths.\nOkonkwos father was genuinely unsuccessful and title less-this brought disconcert on Okonkwo from an early age-so Okonkwo strived to be the inverse of his father in every possible way. By overcoming this shame brought by his father, at an early age, Okonkwo builds his home and personality as a grappling hook and hard-working farmer. His efforts pay off as he becomes wealthy through his crops and has three wives. Okonkwo hid all of his emotions and replaced all of them with occasional bursts of anger to scan his strength, and dominates his three wives and children by macrocosm insensitive and controlling in order to show that he was manly. Okonkwo never showed any emotion openly, unless it be the emotion of anger. everywhere the years, Okonkwo became a very uncultivated man. His greatest weakness was his thirsti ness for being a give man drove him towards success, and because eventua...