What Is Okonkwo's Culture In Things Fall Apart

Home, it is the place that we feel the safest and most comfortable. In the book, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe tells us a story about colonization in Africa, and how one society destroys the home of others. The natives attempt to keep their culture within their society, but ultimately fail. Achebe is stressing that the native people don’t need to be rescued by anyone, and they have and always will do just fine on their own. He does this by explaining their culture in strenuous detail, the characteristics of the main character, Okonkwo.
Things Fall Apart is comprised of three parts. Achebe takes the entire first part of the book to fully explain the culture of the people. 122 pages of Ibo culture is explained in the book so we don’t question

Okonkwo is a very well respected man within his society. He is a well known wrestler, has three wives, many children, titles within his society, multiple barns, and is well respected. Achebe describes him as very hardworking, never lazy, he does not tolerate weakness and gets angry and violent very quickly. When the white men come he wants fight, others do not jump to violence this quickly. “Okonkwo warned the others to be fully armed. “An Umuofia man does not refuse a call,” he said. “He may refuse to do what he is asked; he does not refuse to be asked. But the times have changed, and we must be fully prepared”’ (Achebe 193). Achebe writes Okonkwo to be strong, and deal with any problem that he is faced with. An example of this would be Okonkwo’s first yam harvest. It was the worst season that their home had seen in a very long time, one man even hung himself. Okonkwo said that if he could survive that, he could survive anything. Conditions in his home got so bad that he killed himself. “Then they came to the tree from which Okonkwo’s body was dangling,...”(Achebe 207). The white men came to rescue the native people, but they forced one of the towns strongest men to hang