Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Life has a funny way of turning for sometime the better but it always has a dark way to turn around. Is being a leader standing on top and being better than all below is it really worth all the pain? Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a true example of the way life turns for the worse. This story starts out with a young boy named Okonkwo through his life he had always strived to better than his father who was a man of no respect in his village he was looked at as worthless and no better than the dirt on the ground. By the time Okonkwo who was the main character of this book was old enough to carry out task he had already been awarded a title in the village which was from winning the wrestle match between the Cat and him this was something

But Okonkwo went and done what he was warned not to do and that was to not be apart of the killing of his own. Life goes on from this and he is full of pain and heartache. It seems as if the farther he goes in life the more he fine more pain and for what to be the leader to be better than his father. The reason I say this is because he goes on to tell of how his only daughter whom he so wished was a boy becomes sick and he hurries out to find the cure and brings it back and she becomes well again. Ezeudu became ill and passed on which is the man that told Okonkwo to not go and kill Ikemefuna but he did anyways while the guns were going off for the praised man of the clan. Okonkwo which was standing there in all at what has happened his gun goes off and kills a clansman which sends him to exile for the next seven years. He goes to his mother hometown where he truly learns the true meaning of not life isn't about the titles you receive but that doesn't mean he doesn't want them. While he is there he loses his Nowye to the Christian faith and it cause many people in his father town to fall two. When he returns after exile he learns that the town he once was so