Things Fall Apart Ikemefuna Quotes

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“No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women, and his children he was not really a man”.( Chinua Achebe ).This make me feel upset and broke my heart. The quotation above shows that even how prosperous a man is he never been called a real man if he didn’t threatened his women and his children in a good ways. In Chapter 7 Okonkwo feels to the boy that have given him by the Umuofia named Ikemefuna as well as for his son. Instead of that I am very upset of what Okonkwo do to Ikemefuna. Because Okonkwo didn’t think that the boy thinking him as his real father and recognizing Nwoye as his little brother.But time past Okonkwo thinks that Ikemefuna is just only a bad influence to his son. When the time that Okonkwo seek to tells Ikemefuna that they are going to Mbaino. Ikemefuna doesn’t believe of what Okonkwo tells him.I am very happy when Ikemefuna can go home to Mbaino. But when I really know the truth that it is just only a lies my heart cut into pieces. They did not notice that Nwoye hear what they are talking that Ikemefuna was leaving he feel burst into tears …show more content…

It broke my heart when the men of Umuofia strikes the first blow of their machete to Ikemefuna in the time that he turned back. When Ikemefuna cries out I am crying to beacause Ikemefuna seeking help for he thinks his real father but it turns into nothing. Instead of seeking help he actually beaten him and kill by using his machete. When Nwoye knows that Ikemefuna is dead everything changes with him. Being one of the warrior man and a respected person in your village you can do anything just for the seek of everone. Upon reading “ Things Fall Apart” I realized that even if you are against in your tradition you must follow it in the seek of your Oracle. It is hurt to think that the father his threat as his real father is the one who end up his life with a senseless

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