How Are Ikemefuna And Okonkwo Alike

Showing more affection toward a total stranger who has been stripped from a family, than given affection toward your own son would that be being sympathetic or unsympathetic. In the novel,”Things Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe a new character is introduced very early in the novel, Ikemefuna, who Okonkwo treats like a son, while Nwoye, the real son of Okonkwo tends to get mistreated. Despite the misfortune or fortune the characters have with Okonkwo, Okonkwo is still very much a sympathetic person deep down.

Nwoye and Ikemefuna are character who in the novel, Things Fall Apart are comparable and contrastable whereas they have no blood relationship with each other and each hold different relationship with Okonkwo. Ikemefuna is a older child who

Early in the novel, Nwoye, Okonkwo, and Ikemefuna are in the yam farm gathering and picking out yams which Nwoye mistakenly cut a yam which was of great value as it was one of the bigger yams,”If you split another yam of this size, I shall break your jaw. You think you are still a child. I began to own a farm at your age. And you,”(page 32, paragraph 4, by Chinua Achebe). Okonkwo is expressed to come off as a frightening character, but he is like this as everything he does has a reason he simply refuses to have a child to become a dead end like his father was, that's why the harsh attitude is present. Nwoye’s relationship with his father differs and is also similar to the relationship Ikemefuna has with Okonkwo. In a brief explanation the relationship differs because, Ikemefuna is allowed and welcome to the family of Okonkwo when he merely is property of the village, and is disguised to be a son in acting in feast and ceremonies when Okonkwo invites him to tag along. On the contrary, despite of the well treatment Ikemefuna receives hes is still threatened by Okonkwo and gets the heavy hand as everybody else. As previously said everything is done for a reason and Okonkwo simply refuses to have another person to have the same characteristics and personality of his father, he might not be admired by all be he is a sympathetic

In the novel, Ikemefuna was introduced as compensation from a crime of another village, he was obligated to live with Okonkwo and his family and everyone was fond of the boy,”Okonkwo himself became very fond of the boy inwardly of course… Sometimes when he went to a big village meetings or communal ancestral feasts he allowed Ikemefuna to accompany him, like a son,”(page 28, paragraph 3, by Chinua Achebe). Okonkwo received the boy and took care of him he as well, allowed Ikemefuna to be his son in pretending and to call him his father, showing that under all that skin and anger is a person who cares. Despite this there's still a difference between the two relationships of Nwoye and Ikemefuna, he was compensation so he was forced to live with Okonkwo and his family as property he needs to be treated well unless told so otherwise. While Nwoye receives a harsh treatment because his father wants his son to strive for better and become a greater man than he is right now. Once again there's a similarity between the relationships and it is the same one stated previously, that both of the young adults get the hard hand from Okonkwo. Merely taking care of a child who does not belong to you is a great task showing delicacy and sometimes pe of affection, this makes Okonkwo a