... to be proud of. There's always hope but in his case he let that hope go astray. Unoka has a son, Okonkwo. He is a great warrior, feared and honored by many. He works hard to maintain such honor. He is a man of courage, yet he is a man of cowardice. He ... to Umuofia, he soared high and tried to lead the clan once again, yet he failed. All the things he planted seem to fall apart. In the end the great warrior of Umuofia, stopped the pain in his heart by hanging his own body on a tree. The once greatest man in Umuofia was buried like a dog ... 's a little absurd. For the women of Umuofia,...

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... a depression where he "did not taste food for two days and did not sleep at night." This is not something that the Okonkwo of the first few pages, the fearless warrior, would have done. More importantly, he asks himself "how can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to ... has fallen to pieces is a significant event because it is the first time that Okonkwo's stoic mask has collapsed, and he has been unable to ignore his emotions. True, he thought himself a "shivering old woman" for it, but it was the beginning of a deeper change. Another event that provoked Okonkwo to ... grow...

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... debts; no barns, no yam-seeds and on top he had, from an early age, to work to feed his family and his mother who implies as well his father: a woman could not eat if her husband was starving. It probably would explain why Okonkwo did not grow as mentally as he grew physically. I mean that despite ... 's womb. These kids live shortly (not more than a few years) and this perpetual "born-die" cycle is the manifestation of evil spirits sent to bring misery in a woman's life. Whether there is a reality in it or not, I think that, mutilating someone in other to scare the evil, is inhuman. I w...

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... left her village and moved to Lagos in the midst of urbanization. Ezeudu was truly a warrior and the clansmen attended his funeral. During the gunshot celebrations Okonkwo accidentally fired his gun and ironically the bullet caused the death of the dead man's sixteen-year-old son. The only path left for Okonkwo to travel was ... that they both want different outcomes in their lives. They are after dissimilar goals with unlike expectations. Okonkwo will never be able to accept the coming of the Christians as a change in culture, social status, or even every day living. Okonkwo is overconf...

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... As a result, Okonkwo has grown up very poor and ashamed of his lazy father. At one point in the book, Okonkwo remembers hearing one of his playmates calling his father anagbala,? which was the word for woman, but all described a man who had taken not titles (13). Okonkwo never forgets this, and actually develops ... no money. As a young man, Okonkwo had been very successful wrestler, and as he grew older he became a well-known warrior. He was said to have brought home five human heads, which was a great achievement even for men who were much older that he was. At ... , and a very producti...

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