Things Fall Apart

The Umuofian culture puts a pressure on Nwoye to act like a man in the culture. This depiction of the ideal man does not treasure the same things Nwoye treasures, such as the stories that his mother tells him, or the songs the Christians sing.

Further, the Umuofian culture has led to the killing of Ikemefuna, whom Nwoye saw as his elder brother. Nwoye considers such a death unfair and unjustified.

A wife is not the same as one's mother.

Okonkwo from the book Things Fall Apart is fictional. There are other real people named Okonkwo now though.

Very well; for example, when Okonkwo threw the Cat (this happened before the book was written) he was considered some sort of hero for the rest of his life. Of course, until he is banished, etc...

Okonkwo was punished for breaking the Week of Peace, and exiled for accidentally killing Ekeudu's son. Okonkwo was jailed for helping burn down the church.

In other ways, the killing of Ekeudu's son was punishment for killing Ikemefuna.

Nwoye's conversion was punishment for his inflexibility.

After killing the white man's messenger, Okonkwo was forced to kill himself out of pride.

When a man fails alone, it is more likely that the man will be blamed for the failure. When a man fails with others, it is more likely that the circumstances will be blamed for the failure. A failure of self is more damning than a failure due to circumstance.

Mr Brown does not visit Okonkwo. You may be thinking of the conversation between him and Akunna.

Okonkwo hates the Christian church. I'm not sure what kind of answer you're looking for, but I'd say he'd like to destroy the church, or burn it to the ground, etc.

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Onwumbiko was buried in the Evil Forest by the medicine man, who dragged the dead baby by the ankles along the ground to the forest.

They do not call a snake by name because they are afraid it will hear it's name and respond.

The importance of family is emphasized in the uri ceremony by inviting all family, and kinsmen to the ceremony. They all sit in a circle, and are considered in the family and are able to drink the wine of the in-laws.

For Okonkwo, the other religion provides no appeal and is madness, so he can not understand why Nwoye would have joined it. Further, he does not wish to see his children turn their backs on the gods, they would further be ostracized by other villagers, and excluded from high ranks of the tribe.

Ekwefi is so used to having her children die on her that she believed that it was Ezinma's time to die and leave her again.

Many white people came later, and found the armored horse tied to the tree.

They later came back to the market with many men with guns and slaughtered everyone at the market that day. Only the old, the sick, and women, whose chi were awake and told them not to go to the market that day, were spared slaughter.

Specifically, crimes had gender differentiation. An accidental murder was considered a female crime, whereas an intentional murder was considered a male crime.

The second half of Things Fall Apart deals with colonialism and its effects.

The white colonists are not shown to be either pure evil or pure good.

Their actions unintentionally harm the way of life of the Ibo, but at the same time the white people appear to give hope to many of the Ibo who are marginalized by their culture.

The priest Mr. Brown took on an accommodating role, seeming to genuinely try to serve the Ibo through 'enlightenment.'

Some of the colonists (particularly the soldiers and the commissioner) are completely unsympathetic to the Ibo and consider them to be uncivilized or barbaric, which is an accurate depiction of generalized European mindsets at the time.

Five court messengers came to stop the meeting. Okonkwo decapitated one of them.

Yes, as a human it is hard not to feel compassion for Okonkwo for suffering for an accident. This may be mitigated by the reaction to some of Okonkwo's other deeds. It may be the gods teaching him a lesson.

Achebe got most of his view from his own culture through the writing of Europeans. At first he related to the European writings, but as time went on, he felt they were poor caricatures and stereotypes of the actual people, and he tried to show this through his writing.

Achebe does not dive right into the court cases, but describes in great detail the ceremony around the Egwugwu court. The details are so vivid and out of the ordinary it leaves the reader wondering what is about to happen.

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Okonkwo not only is hard-working, but has proved it by clearing his farm before he asked for yams. He respectfully is prepared to show Nwakibie that he is a good investment. Okonkwo is ripe, by his look. Further, Okonkwo brings the proper shows of respect, including palm-wine, a cock, kola nut, and an alligator pepper.

Okonkwo insults Osugo during a meeting of the village's men.