Analysis Of Okonkwo Died When He Killed Ikemefuna
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Describe how Okonkwo died when he killed Ikemefuna: The book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a very in depth book about Nigeria. It describes what their culture is like and how their traditions are different than how most believe are normal. In the book one of the main characters, Okonkwo, suffers many deaths. Okonkwo died in almost all ways when he killed Ikemefuna. A death is a irreversible change. Death can be presented in different ways such as physically, emotionally, politically, and economically. There isn 't just one kind of death. The first of the deaths that Okonkwo experienced in this book was emotional. Okonkwo experienced an emotional death when Ikemefuna was killed. He thought of him as a son more than his own son. It was emotional because Okonkwo had to participate in Ikemefuna’s death. He participated because, he didn 't want to show vulnerability to the other villagers in fear of looking weak like his father was. Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna with his machete even though he was advised not to get involved in the execution. Ikemefuna was …show more content…
Since the day Okonkwo left he planned for his return. He made his own garden so he could grow more yams and would be able to trade them when he returned. But, while the missionaries were there they changed the system and brought money into their barter system. Yams were no longer important to the barter system because they had money to use. Okonkwo, upon his return didn 't know what to think because he was used to trading yams, which is why he grew them for the seven years he was gone. Trying to grasp a new idea like this would be really hard. Okonkwo had lived all his life using yams to trade and get the things he needed. The yams were the most valuable thing the villagers had, which is why they used them instead of money. Since he is older this new idea of having to use money to do things was just unheard of for him and he couldn 't accept
In this essay, the author
- Describes how okonkwo died when he killed ikemefuna in things fall apart by chinua achebe. a death is an irreversible change.
- Analyzes how okonkwo experienced an emotional death when ikemefuna was killed. he participated in the execution because he didn't want to look weak like his father.
- Explains that the second death he experienced was a political death. he had to leave behind all his rankings and lost his land.
- Describes how okonkwo died when he killed ikemefuna in things fall apart by chinua achebe. a death is an irreversible change.
- Analyzes how okonkwo experienced an emotional death when ikemefuna was killed. he participated in the execution because he didn't want to look weak like his father.
- Explains that the second death he experienced was a political death. he had to leave behind all his rankings and lost his land.
- Analyzes how okonkwo's home knew him to be very powerful, because he had many wives and many children. the igbo had new people arrive and tried to convert everyone to their religion.
- Explains that okonkwo's third death is an economical death, since he planned for his return. while the missionaries were there, they changed the system and brought money into their barter system.
- Analyzes how reverend smith was not able to believe his people allowed for this to happen to their village. he wanted to take back what was his, which is why he killed him.
- Explains that the last death presented was a physical death. since no one else joined in to fight back, he knew the missionaries had already won his people over.
- Analyzes okonkwo's emotional, political, economic, and physical death. he was banished for seven years from his village and hung himself after realizing that the missionaries had won over his people.
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- Analyzes how okonkwo's unhealthy obsession of wanting to be an unbreakable man becomes so paralyzing that he no longer understands the line between weakness and strength.
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- Analyzes how okonkwo's fear of failure and weakness dominates him throughout his life. the men of umuofia decide that ikemefuna must be killed.
- Analyzes how okonkwo's unhealthy obsession of wanting to be an unbreakable man becomes so paralyzing that he no longer understands the line between weakness and strength.
- Analyzes how okonkwo's contrasting views from the views of the others in the village lead to his demise.
- Analyzes okonkwo's desperate attempts to avoid being like his father, who was weak and a failure. he kills himself when he feels useless to his community who has given themselves up to the colonial peoples.
- Analyzes how okonkwo commits suicide to offend the earth, as believed by the people of umuofia. suicide is regarded as a grave sin and shameful way of dying.
733 wordsRead More - Nigerian Culture In Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebeanalytical essayAs you see, Okonkwo was a deprived man after hearing about the whites expanding their beliefs and customs to Umuofia. Being unable to contain it, he had no choice but to give in. Okonkwo wanted to go to war and fight the invading Europeans, but he soon realized that he was the only one hungry for war. “I shall fight alone if I choose” (Achebe 201). Being the only one seeking for revenge, he had no choice but to behead the head messenger who was trying to end a clan meeting. Letting the other messengers escape, Okonkwo’s visual was the truth. “He knew that Umuofia would not go to war” (Achebe 205). Everything that he stood for was now distant. His once powerful and running clan was now weak and resistant to fight off enemies. What was the point to live when everything else had failed him and he could do nothing to resolve it? He struggled with the changes occurring in the tribe. He was known as a very strong and honorable tribesman, but when the whites arrived promoting Christianity and other tribe members began to change as a result, even his own son, he could not bear the change. While viewing the others as weak, like his father, he tries to remain strong against change however he is the only one. Killing the messenger was the last attempt to try and save the tribe from the influence of the white man. Seeing the others not join in his action, he loses hope and in desperation ends his life
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- Analyzes how chinua achebe's novel things fall apart displays a strong significance based solely on nigerian culture and how it slowly evolved due to european immigrants.
- Describes okonkwo as a man of strength, wealth, and high status in his clan in umuofia. being influenced by his father's failures and weakness, he strived to become the best.
- Describes how okonkwo fled the clan because he had killed one of his own clansmen, which was a crime against the earth goddess.
- Analyzes how chinua achebe's novel things fall apart displays a strong significance based solely on nigerian culture and how it slowly evolved due to european immigrants.
- Describes okonkwo as a man of strength, wealth, and high status in his clan in umuofia. being influenced by his father's failures and weakness, he strived to become the best.
- Describes how okonkwo fled the clan because he had killed one of his own clansmen, which was a crime against the earth goddess.
- Analyzes how okonkwo's misled actions created a prolonged disaster that increased by the day.
- Analyzes how chinua achebe chose to end the novel in an unexpected way. okonkwo was a deprived man after hearing about the whites expanding their beliefs and customs to umuofia.
- Analyzes how chinua achebe describes how okonkwo rose above all because of his father's poor decisions and became a successful individual.
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