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Things Fall Apart: Okonkwo's Father

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Okonkwo’s father influenced him by being embarrassed of his father and doesn't want to live in the shadow of his father. He wants to his own thing. His father did nothing for the family, and don't have enough money or stamina to take care of his family. He said “Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men usually had. He did not inherit a barn from his father. There was no barn to inherit.”Okonkwo wanted the tribe to see that he is not like his father and wanted to prove it himself. Okonkwo also had to take care of his family including his father and mother. He said “The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her messenger,” Okonkwo said. “A child’s fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm.”
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