Essay About Man Verses Man And End Of The Story Okonkwo

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02/11/05
Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart is about different traditional village
cultures in Africa. It also speaks about the British who try and take over the
village by introducing his religion and making it the higher and better religion.
Okonkwo is the narrator of the story. The novel setting is in a small village
called Umofia which is located in the southeastern part of Nigeria and it is
in the late nineteenth century. Man verses Man is the conflict that is seen
in this novel.
Okonkwo is the main character in the novel. He is a hard working
farmer, wrestler, and clan leader who has several children with three wives.
Okonkwo is afraid of being a failure like his father. Because of this, his
behavior towards others is mean. In the novel it explains how Okonkwo
is a man filled with anger and violence. At the end of the story Okonkwo
kills himself. This shows that he has let the violent part of him down and
has become insecure and crazy. I did not like this character because of
his mean actions.
Nwoye is Okonkwos oldest son. He is very lazy and following in
his grandfathers footsteps. Okonkwo is ashamed of him. The book shows
how Nwoye still shows a feminine side when he likes to hear his mothers
stories. In the end, Nwoye stops trying to please his father and finds peace
in another religion with the British missionaries that have invaded the
village.
In one part of the book, Okonkwo accidentally
kills a boy and he and
his family is bannished from the village with his home and field burned
to keep away bad luck. He must stay away for seven years. Okonkwo
is troubled by this because he is a man who wants only wealth and
power. Okonkwo continued to be mean and nasty but this made it
worse.
The missionaries trying to take over the village to make their religion
the primary