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Examples Of Okonkwo's Suicide In Things Fall Apart

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Okonkwo has the biggest culture collision in this entire book he goe against their entire culture when he commits suicide In the end his death was a big example of what would happen if their tribe didn’t fix the outsiders in their tribe. This story is very well thought out as even the commissioner said he couldn't write a book about him but could write a well sized paragraph,but okonkwo got a whole book wrote about him. Who really was okonkwo? Why did okonkwo commit suicide, why after fighting so hard for his tribe commit the worst offence to it? Obierika said- “That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself and now he will be buried like a dog” (153)The commissioner changed his whole world so much he didn't want to stay in his tribe so he did what he felt he could only do.” …show more content…

Okonkwo is a very strong man who is looked up to by many. He ruled his home with an iron fist.Okonkwo was the man who first opposed the british. Okonkwo decided to not follow the british and the christians even to the point of hitting his own son when he found out he changed religion."Answer me," roared Okonkwo, "before I kill you!" He seized a heavy stick that lay on the dwarf wall and hit him two or three savage blows” (113) this shows that he does not like when people go against something or makes him

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