Father And Son In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

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Have you ever had a good relationship with your parent and at times a bad one by arguing about something stupid. One time in my life i got my phone taken away and i got super mad i yelled at my mom and said “I hate you and i wish i never had you in my life”! And she said” well fine then you can leave if you don't like it “!. when she got done talking i left and didn't come back for a while. When i got back i was cooled down and me and my mother said we were sorry and that we loved each other. Another time is when me and my went to a movie together. My mom is like my best friend even though at times i may not like the way she acts toward me. I would say that me and my mother have a good relationship where i can tell her anything and she wouldn't go and tell her friends or my father when i did something i regret or don't like what i did. In the african novel ,Things Fall Apart ,by Chinua Achebe, the main character Okonkwo does not like the decisions Nwoye his son is making. In the novel Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck, George …show more content…

In the book, Okonkwo thinks that his son, Nwoye, is lazy. “To react, Okonkwo often “sought to correct him by constant nagging and beating” (Achebe 11). With Okonkwo's beating Nwoye it shows he doesn't care what happens to him as long as he's doesn't end up like his dad: lazy. NOt caring shows that they have a bad relationship. Good relations show that people care and someone can tell people anything. Okonkwo and Nwoye don’t have that. This is shown when Nwoye grows up and joins the Christians. Okonkwo does not like this, so Nwoye is kind of disowned. WHen asked about his dad, he says, “‘I don't know. He is not my father’, said Nwoye unhappily” ( Achebe 124). Okonkwo, Nwoye father has disowned him because he joined the christians and is very unhappy about that. Okonkwo wishes that he was more like him but since he didn't he disowns him because of the religion he

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