I will be a great leader! Nwoye, said to himself. I will show them that I am just as good of a leader as my father is! One day soon they will know the name Nwoye and respect it. Nwoye knew that he had to be different from his father, he wanted to show his mother, brothers and sisters that the new way of the colonists was the right way. He wanted his family to join him in this new world and to learn the new religion.
Sometime later, the Commissioner came to Nwoye and explained to him that his father Okonkwo had committed suicide. He explained to Nwoye that because of the tribes customs they would not cut him down from the tree, that, that responsibility had now fallen to his shoulders as he is the eldest son. The news that his father had hung himself shocked, saddened and dismayed Nwoye. He said to the commissioner; “He was always a st
When Nwoye entered the hut he found his mother and siblings all gathered around crying, they looked up at him with surprise and a little bit of condemnation. His mother looked up at Nwoye and said; “Why have you come?” Nwoye said; “I buried father in the ground and wanted to be near you” Why? said his mother; as she contemplated to herself what it was her oldest son wanted. I have come to talk to you of the missionaries and what they have taught me.
Nwoye, thought to himself that maybe his father wasn’t as strong as he had thought. What man takes his life, like the lowliest animal on earth? He was to be buried in the ground but not consecrated ground, the new religion also didn’t believe in a man taking his own life. If it was the olden times the great Okonkwo would have been thrown into the evil forest.
rong man, a leader, what could have happened?” With
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