Things Fall Apart

In Things Fall Apart, I thought that it was messed up to kill Ikemefuna when they got his hopes up by telling him he was going back to his mother. He was backstabbed by the Umuofia in the forest when he wasn’t expecting it. I also thought that it was pretty smart to get his hopes up because it left Ikemefuna vulnerable to the attack. If he actually knew about the execution, then he could probably run away or even bring a machete of his own to fight back. I still don’t get why Okonkwo finished him off, even though he did it to not look weak. It was still his adopted son who looked up to him and was the son he always wanted. Even though killing Ikemefuna showed that he wasn’t weak, when he couldn’t carry himself with his legs after thinking about the killing showed that he was.