Friday, December 15, 2017
Things Fall Apart #2
In part two of Things Fall Apart, I started to look back in all of all Okonkwo's killings from Ikemefuna in part one, to Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son in part two and I started to go into a deeper thing and ask myself who would Okonkwo kill next. All these killings have cause Okonkwo to become weak, and as much as he tries to hide it inside he is really depressed and emotional. He was trialed for a female crime which is also something that degrades his masculinity. Okonkwo were forced to leave the clan and go back to Okonkwo's hometown where there is a rumor of white skinned people invading clans. Also in part two Nwoye started to consider changing religion, after all, he thinks that the violence in their culture and religion has done nothing but caused him pain. Okonkwo has started to think that all of these incidents are punishments for him murdering Ikemefuna. All of these events that happened so far have made Okonkwo think that he has become his worst nightmare, a failure like his father. I think him bottling up all these emotions and expressing them as anger will lead to another tragedy in part three like him killing his other son Nwoywe or even himself.
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I like your viewpoints on the story, and I agree that after both killings, Okonkwo lost strength and became weak. I believe that Okonkwo will end up killing someone else in part three and that he will become weaker than he already was and end up dying alone. In my opinion, he has done too many sinful things in his lifetime and everything will come back to haunt him.
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