His greatest actions are contrasted as we see his miserable past, which was not favorable, he was very poor and his father Unoka had won the fame of a lofter and a very lazy person, the only thing he knew very well to do was playing the flute. He soon died and as for his burial he didn't receive a very honrable one, as for one of their beliefs says that a man who didn't posses lands, women would be not distinguished within the tribe. As for Okwonkwo when he grew older he was so ashamed of his father and angry at the same time, that he promised himself to not failon being a hardworker, obtain lands and crops.
The first action he took was at the wrestling game and then people started looking him differently but still very poor and little lands, the next thing he would is go to Nwakibie a very wealthy man o ask for a favor, which is if he can lend him some yam seeds and he should pay it for him. At first Okwonko sees he is very quiet but he mentions thta many others had also comed to ask and he was very proud of his yam seeds, to give them to complete strangers however he says he sees in Okwonkwo a very intelligent man so he gives twice four hundred seeds; Okwonkwo is very grateful, he then starts to sow the lands and dig the seeds but the terrible rain came and the seeds didn't prosper so he had only a hope when a new season would come he would start all over again, indeed altough all the difficulties he passes green leaves flourished.
Now that we have talked about the main character, other very important things happened all around Umofia, like the incident murder of wife's man; the consequences qere to declare war to Mbaino or them giving a virgin and a child, at wich they choose the second one knowing that Umofia was a place not to play or fool them, they were known for their fierceness. The virgin was given to the man who lost his wife, while the child, called Ikemefuna was sent to Okwonko's household as not knowing what to do with him.
Ikemefuna was terribly afraid of this new house altough he was very well received into the family, the first few weeks he couldn't eat and became sick but soon enough he was just a normal boy very lively and intellgent. Nwoeye a son ofOkwonko was quickly contagiated by his knowledge and wanted to be like him, Okwonko felt very fond of Ikemefuna not showing it, but deep inside as he was starting to see lazyness in Nwoeye and Ikemefuna seemed to be correcting him.
During the Week Of Peace were people didn't work, but invited all their neighbors to drink palm wine and after the weekk they would burn all the bushes to clear lands and start a new harvest. An incident occured with Okwonkwo a day when he came home to wait for supper, nobody camed at wich he came to look at his wife's hut but nobody was there, so he asked his other wives and said she was off at her friends house plaiting her hair, consequently a severe beating was held when she came back and the wives cried it was the week of peace. Fortunately Okwonkwo would be asked to pass by the shrine of Ani were he was scolded and was asked to bring a she goat, one hen and a hundred cowries. Next came the Feast Of New Yam which was a new year for them, were they would dispose old yams and grow new ones make vegetable soup and rich men invited all their relatives, Okwonkwo hated festivities preferd to work at farm. The Next day of the festival a wrestling was held, first the youngest of fifteen and sixteen and then the oldest;in this case it was Okafo and Ikezu, won Okafo.
Lastly the two boys (Nwoeye and Ikemefuna) started to gather at their fathers obi or hut every evening so they could hear stories of war and masculine stuff, they helped him in man chores and one day a man called Ogbuefi came to tell Okwonkwo that the Oracle of The Hills had pronunced that Ikemefuna should be killed, that afternoon a party of men with goatskins and machetes gathered with Okwonko and Ikemefuna walked to the outskirts of Umofia and Okonkwo caught off Ikemefuna.
Now that we have talked about the main character, other very important things happened all around Umofia, like the incident murder of wife's man; the consequences qere to declare war to Mbaino or them giving a virgin and a child, at wich they choose the second one knowing that Umofia was a place not to play or fool them, they were known for their fierceness. The virgin was given to the man who lost his wife, while the child, called Ikemefuna was sent to Okwonko's household as not knowing what to do with him.
Ikemefuna was terribly afraid of this new house altough he was very well received into the family, the first few weeks he couldn't eat and became sick but soon enough he was just a normal boy very lively and intellgent. Nwoeye a son ofOkwonko was quickly contagiated by his knowledge and wanted to be like him, Okwonko felt very fond of Ikemefuna not showing it, but deep inside as he was starting to see lazyness in Nwoeye and Ikemefuna seemed to be correcting him.
During the Week Of Peace were people didn't work, but invited all their neighbors to drink palm wine and after the weekk they would burn all the bushes to clear lands and start a new harvest. An incident occured with Okwonkwo a day when he came home to wait for supper, nobody camed at wich he came to look at his wife's hut but nobody was there, so he asked his other wives and said she was off at her friends house plaiting her hair, consequently a severe beating was held when she came back and the wives cried it was the week of peace. Fortunately Okwonkwo would be asked to pass by the shrine of Ani were he was scolded and was asked to bring a she goat, one hen and a hundred cowries. Next came the Feast Of New Yam which was a new year for them, were they would dispose old yams and grow new ones make vegetable soup and rich men invited all their relatives, Okwonkwo hated festivities preferd to work at farm. The Next day of the festival a wrestling was held, first the youngest of fifteen and sixteen and then the oldest;in this case it was Okafo and Ikezu, won Okafo.
Lastly the two boys (Nwoeye and Ikemefuna) started to gather at their fathers obi or hut every evening so they could hear stories of war and masculine stuff, they helped him in man chores and one day a man called Ogbuefi came to tell Okwonkwo that the Oracle of The Hills had pronunced that Ikemefuna should be killed, that afternoon a party of men with goatskins and machetes gathered with Okwonko and Ikemefuna walked to the outskirts of Umofia and Okonkwo caught off Ikemefuna.
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe,1994).
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