EA 3.2
Literary Analysis: character analysis
Has there ever been a time where you have you interact with someone of a different religion or lifestyle and believes? in the book “Thing Fall Apart” Okonkwo feel out of place in the new cultural change there was in his village. One point in the book Okonkwo has to kill himself to prove a point. Feeling out of place can lead to self harm specially even where a place you used to be able to call home.
Okonkwo has anger problems he didn't know how to control them and he also didn't know how to tell the difference from anger and fear in some situations. “”He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose a very severe look.” Okonkwo was a scary looking person people could just easily assume he was a very self pride person and rude. “ whenever he was angry and could not get his words out quickly enough, he would use his fists”. Okonkwo was already well known for him being an angry person and his impulsive actions that lead him to not great things in the book at times.
Okonkwo rejected atheism new culture because he has fear and anger.
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He was afraid of being thought as weak. Okonkwo realize that he is having trouble functioning with his culture being changed and his village with his old religion he was seen as a leader and he felt like one he had to follow does rules. He was just afraid his culture was going to be taking away from him everything he had learned and all the he knows. “He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women.” This shows how much it's affected Okonkwo because thought it the whole novel he talk about how it's so important to be a man and how he's a good example of that but because of the “white man” he's becoming more lenient and he's a “woman” because he's not a tough as he used to