Things Fall Apart

This also proved to Awoken that he was nothing like his weak father. Awoken is then able to attain a position of wealth and gain a good and respected reputation, even though his father was shameful and poor. Numb- Linking Partake song Numb is about a person having to live up to someone else expectations….

The world in Chinua Achedes novel, Things Fall Apart, was a society in which males had control of everything, and the women had control of nothing. As wives, women were seen as property, rather than as partners to be loved and cherished. The men of the Ibo tribe usually married more than one wife because…

 I was a trim-sport athlete. I was not an average athlete by the way. I played football, soccer, and tennis. I won multiple most valuable player awards in different sports. We are talking about a division one high school in Oceanside, California that had maneuvers between 2000 and 2500 students, the competition was tough. I…

He uses his pride as a mechanism to avoid showing signs of weakness and maintaining his respected status in Mafia. His personal pride allows him to celebrate his success and separate himself from the shame of his father: “He had begun even in his father’s lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous future. It…

In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo committed a crime and had to leave the village for seven years. After he arrived back to Umuoafia, he saw that the white men have changed a lot of things and many of his kinsmen joined the white men. I am writing this task as an alternative ending…

“Okonkwo’s machete descended twice and the man’s head lay beside his uniformed body” (146). Okonkwo, the son of the effeminate and lazy Unoka, strives to make his way in a world that seems to value manliness. In so doing, he rejects everything for which he believes his father stood. Unoka was idle, poor, profligate, cowardly,…

Okonkwo’s self-destruction was caused by his drive for masculinity . Okonkwo’s fear of being a failure caused Okonkwo to hide behind a veneer of anger and aggression. Okonkwo’s masculinity was all he had and was the factor that controlled his behavior. He was often consumed in his actions of masculinity that seemed to know no…

Throughout “Things Fall Apart” various proverbs are used to teach the cause and effect of decisions, warn against certain events, and poetic words to find meaning. These types of proverbs are the most traditional and prominent ways of teaching in the Bio culture. Another prominent way in the Gobo culture is trying to obtain a…

Awoken fails to free himself from his major character flaws, which ultimately brings about his tragic demise. Ginkgo’s first prominent flaw is his fear of failure, which is greatly influenced by his father, Knock, a very lazy and carefree man. He had a reputation of being “poor and his wife and children had barely enough…

Awoken considered Shameful as one of his own sons. He was truly saddened when he was killed. There were quite few effects on Awoken from that horrible event. At first, Awoken was not able to sleep for days. He also kept on getting drunk, and that was a sign that he was miserable. Another thing,…