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Okonkwo beat his wife before the feast of the new yam. Then when Ekwefi backtalks, he nearly kills her by shooting his gun near her. She is however physically unharmed.
Okonkwo wrestled. Okonkwo fought in wars.
My joy was ephemeral, disappearing when I realized that this grand feast would be the last thing to touch my lips before I was lynched before an angry mob.
Okonkwo broke the Week of Peace, a sacred thing. Ojiugo merely was negligent in her duties.
Subjective answer: The thing that upsets Okonkwo the most internally, is the fact that Nwoye is too much like his grandfather Unoka. The one action that gets Okonkwo the most upset externally is finding out that Nwoye has been hanging around the Christians, at which point Okonkwo confronts Nwoye and nearly chokes him to death.
A feast day is a day of celebration of something. It does not have to be on the birthday of the person being celebrated.
Feast day and memorial are, basically, the same thing. It is the day we celebrate the anniversary of that person's birth into Heaven.
Okonkwo justified his part in Ikemefuna's death by believing he had to show strength and not appear weak. He convinced himself that he was acting in the best interest of his family and his community by following the customs and expectations of the tribe.
January 6th is the Feast of the Epiphany, celebrated by Roman Catholics as the visitation of the Magi to the baby Jesus. It is also known as the Feast of the Three Kings.
I believe Okonkwo accidently killed an innocent boy (on the day sweetest to him). Considering Evil Forest said this it would seem that it is the evil thing to do by killing someone on their most happiest, sweetest day rather than a depressing, gloomy day. Okonkwo kills himself at the end of the book if that matters.
Okonkwo sees the killing of Ikemefuna as proof of his manliness, his willing to sacrifice one who was like a child to him to the gods based on the Oracle's word. Okonkwo feels that Obierika should have fulfilled his duty to the tribe and gone on the death march as well. Obierika finds it shameful that Okonkwo should have been the one to kill Ikemefuna. Letting him be sacrificed is one thing, but taking part in the death march and doing the killing himself are different things entirely. Obierika feels that Okonkwo should not even have gone on the march.
Macbeth decides to do the wrong thing to gain power, murdering the king. Okonkwo is trying to do the right things to gain respect, but ends up doing some morally ambiguous things, such as killing his adopted son Ikemefuna, and killing the messenger for the Europeans.