Things fall Apart
In the book “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe certain themes are present in the the
novel. Themes like Good and Evil, customs and tradition, and the one I picked Alienation and
Lonliness. The story begins with the main character Okonwko who is the son of Unoka, a lazy
sensitive guy, he has grown up to be very different than his own father. Okonwko is manly,
strong, and is competitive opposed to anyone who is weak.The main problem with Okonwko is
how badly he treats his family.
Okonwko uses violence to get his point across. For example, when Okonwko beats his
wife Ekwefi after she did nothing wrong was completely uncalled for. Okonwko has no concern
for the people he beats up and the people he hurts. He
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Women are just expected
to prepare food and just be at their husband’s sides at all times. It not only frustrates me
personally, but millions of woman all over the world. In Iraq woman are required to wear long
black cloaks and headdresses to cover themselves up. It's not only extremely unfair but they have
to wear it all the time. Woman should never be treated less than men and it's annoying that
woman are discriminated against. Honestly, I can speak for millions by saying that it's unfair and
totally sexist. In the novel “Things Fall Apart” Okonokwa is very sexist and feels the need to
beat all of the woman he is married to. The woman in his life are subjected to cooking, cleaning,
and raising the children. Okonkwo’s wives don't do much about the abuse they receive and it's
aggravating. Almost to the point where only one wife speaks up after she is beaten during the
Week of Peace.
“A gender role is a set of societal norms dictating what types of behaviors are generally
considered acceptable, appropriate or desirable for a person based on their actual or perceived
sex”. Why is this okay? Who decides what we as woman can wear, say, and do? We can
The major issue women faced with the standard issued protective body armor was the fact that they had breasts and hips. Women’s bodies are often much smaller than their male counterparts. The issues gear would often weigh them down and inhibit body movement. When someone is in the field body movement is the most important function a solder has. “Sgt. Bobbie Crawford, who is 5 feet 6 inches and weighs just over 100 pounds, said she struggled to maneuver wearing body armor when she served in Afghanistan in 2010 as part of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.” Gear designed for men made it hard for women to get in and out of patrol vehicles, use their weapons, and even simple movements like crouch down. Crawford said, “It rubbed on my hips and limited my mobility…You definitely had to find a lot of workarounds, you had to learn to become creative.” How is that fair for women, having to alter either their bodies or gear to make it work. A temporary fix does not solve the problem. In 2012 there was new hard armor plate and soft armor being designed for women, however now in 2013, very little has been resolved.
Okonkwo’s fear of unmanliness is kindled by his father, who was a lazy, unaccomplished man. Okonkwo strives to have a high status from a young age and eventually achieves it. He has a large family, many yams and is well known throughout the village for his valor. He raises his family by his mentality of manliness and is ...
The equality of women is a core Australian value and anyone whose culture allows such repression is simply out of step with the values of the nation he has chosen to live in. We must simply disallow such practices — we must ban the Burqa.
The Burqa Ban is a highly controversial topic, and the views vary to the extremes. Some people definitely argue that women are in fact being degraded through full body coverings which reduce the entity of a woman into something invisible or indistinguishable as a human. Also, they argue that most women are forced to wear coverings like the Burqa and niqab because of the Islamic Shariah law, which seems to be an oppressive and totalitarian tool of submission. But I can attest that some women will agree with me that the coverings do the exact opposite. They raise the value of a woman who cannot be judged by her body and her appearance, but rather has to be evaluated by her pers...
The clothing issue goes farther than that. The fashion industry does make boundaries with clothing. There is women’s clothing and men’s clothing. Women can wear men’s clothing, and at times its the stylish thing to do. Young girls can dress like boys or wear boys clothing and at times will only be called a tom-boy, but that is acceptable to society. Let’s see a man in public wearing a dress, and we stop and go out of our way to break our necks just so we can get a good look....
In these few chapters that we read, we have already learned a lot about Okonkwo, his life, and how he shows sympathy to some, but to others he is heartless. Okonkwo is other wise known as an unsympathetic person. Okonkwo is a clan leader of umuofia who holds many titles and is well known among his people. Okonkwo's daily life consists of tending to the three yam farms he has produced and to make numerous offerings to numerous gods and to help himself and his family. Okonkwo's personality is hard driven, since his father did not provide for him and his family Okonkwo had to start man hood early and this led him to be very successful in his adulthood, Okonkwo is an unsympathetic character who only shows sympathy rarely because he believes it's a sign of weakness Okonkwo's family relationships make him a sympathetic character because when his children show signs of manliness or do their jobs right he shows sympathy towards them. He is an unsympathetic character because whenever he get a little mad he has to take his anger out on something and that is usually vented by beating his wife's.
Okonkwo is known for always reacting to every event with anger and physical punishment to please his ego which is to be seen as a strong warrior, hardworking, and powerful. Which you can see when Okonkwo kills ikemefuna “Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak.
Okonkwo, alongside his desire for power and strength, also becomes absolutely ruthless. He treats his wives as property, even if doing so is the norm in his culture, and
He is an extremely persistent man and a hard worker. He is given seed yams and even when heavy rainfall causes the yams to rot he does not give up and he continues to try. He shows emotion inwardly and is extremely temperamental. As shown by the following quote, Okonkwo still favors boys over girls and men over women. This is because they do the “masculine” tasks.
In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there are many characters with many different personalities. In the story you first get introduced to Okonkwo and his father Unoka. However they are related by blood but they have totally different personalities. Okonkwo and his father Unoka have very little in common but many differences that set them apart and make their future.
Okonkwo, the protagonist, is the first strongest character. He is the first strongest character that gets angry very quickly, but does care about his family, which makes him a tragic hero. Okonkwo was well known after he defeated Amalinze the Cat in the nine villages. “It was this man that Okonkwo threw in a fight which the old men agreed was one of the fiercest since the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and nights” (Achebe 3). Okonkwo is strong to defeat
Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe. I t takes place in the middle
Ekwefi - Ekwefi is Okonkwo's second wife. She had nine children, but each of which died at a very young age. Enzinma is her only surviving child. She is a dedicated mother and a proper wife.
Throughout history, there have been many instances of people struggling to identify and cope with change and tradition, and this is no different in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.