How Is Okonkwo Sympathetic

Okonkwo’s actions sometime make him sympathetic. They make him sympathetic because his father and one of his wives and sometimes other characters in the story. They usually make him lose his temper and I understand why he loses his temper. The reason why Okonkwo’s family relationships make him sympathetic is because they usually give him a reason to lose his temper. A character in the story that he can not stand is his father Unoka.” He had no patience with unsuccessful men, he had no patience with his father.” HIs father was not a good person to look up to , and he grew up hating his father. “He learned to hate everything his father loved.” He proba He couldn’t stand the fact that his father was lazy and he always asked for money so he build up debts. Okonkwo probably has anger problems because of this father because he kind of needed a role model and his father bly thought hating everything his father loved will make him not be like his father and since he was afraid of growing up to be like his father , then that is why he hated everything his father loved. Okonkwo’s wives also make him lose his temper because they sometimes provoke him to be angry all the time. “ Okonkwo’s second wife had merely cut a few leaves off it to wrap some food and she said so.” Okonkwo got angry because they killed his banana

Although Okonkwo loses his temper with his wife and his father he treats them differently. He treats them differently because he doesn’t have any patience with his father, he never really did. He thought his father was a failure and really only cared about himself and Okonkwo didn’t like that his father was lazy and he didn’t do anything. Even though he was about to kill Ekwefi he doesn’t treat her like that all the time . He just lost his temper with her because he said that they killed his banana tree and he thought she deserved a