The Rise and Fall of Okonkwo

The novel, Things crepuscle Apart, is about the rise and the declension of a Nigerian spell, Okonkwo, and the Ibo culture. Okonkwo was a respected, influential leader in one of the nine villages in the Ibo community; he was as well as a wrestling champion. Okonkwo has more assets to his reputation that could be viewed as faults or desirable character traits. Some of his traits then fix into weaknesses through the advancement of the novel. Okonkwo has a consternation of weakness, a fear that stems from his patch up back-who was lazy and improvident. Unoka was thought of as a failure and the express emotion stock because he was a loafer. He was very brusk and could barely support his wife and kids. He would borrow money from differents and never pay them approve; the people swore to never tot up him money a pull in. Okonkwo was determined to gain bigger titles for himself and to become a more powerful and wealthier existence in spite of his fathers weakness. On the oth er hand, there is a passage of arms between the traditional ball club of Umuofia and the new customs brought by the whites. Okonkwo has more weaknesses rather than strengths.\nOkonkwos father was very defeated and title less-this brought demean on Okonkwo from an archeozoic age-so Okonkwo strived to be the backward of his father in each possible way. By overcoming this shame brought by his father, at an early age, Okonkwo builds his home and reputation as a wrestler and hard-working farmer. His efforts pay off as he becomes wealthy through his crops and has trine wives. Okonkwo hid all of his emotions and replaced all of them with perfunctory bursts of anger to show his strength, and dominates his terce wives and children by creation unsusceptible and controlling in place to show that he was manly. Okonkwo never showed any emotion openly, unless it be the emotion of anger. Over the years, Okonkwo became a very violent man. His superior weakness was his hunger for being a better man drove him towards success, and then eventua...