Sympathy For Things Fall Apart
After reading the end of Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, I had sympathy for the main character of the story; Okonkwo, who represents the vulnerability of a tribe by the coming of the Europeans and their Christianity rules, and the abuse of power and violence that the officials in the jail used to dehumanize the leaders of Umofia in the last chapters on the novel.
An unexpected ending of the novel took me by surprise, I believe Okonkwo is a victim from his own destiny and the circumstances in which he was born, and these events drive him to his tragic death at the very end of the story. My sympathy for Okonkwo was first present because throughout the whole story he is living and working in reaction of the fear to failure, and the idea of progress in his community, the possibility of become a person like his father who is not remembered as a wealthy man in the tribe, he was a friendly man mainly known for his kindness, distinctive that for Okonkwo was a sign of fragility. …show more content…
He distances himself from his community and only focuses on his own success. Even though throughout the novel he does some terrible things killing 3 persons in total, I still believe he’s being a victim of his own clan’s social statuses the pressure and fear that he feels, all of his beliefs and desires to be looked as a real man and not look as a coward in front of the other members of the clan make him responsible for the death of
An unexpected ending of the novel took me by surprise, I believe Okonkwo is a victim from his own destiny and the circumstances in which he was born, and these events drive him to his tragic death at the very end of the story. My sympathy for Okonkwo was first present because throughout the whole story he is living and working in reaction of the fear to failure, and the idea of progress in his community, the possibility of become a person like his father who is not remembered as a wealthy man in the tribe, he was a friendly man mainly known for his kindness, distinctive that for Okonkwo was a sign of fragility. …show more content…
He distances himself from his community and only focuses on his own success. Even though throughout the novel he does some terrible things killing 3 persons in total, I still believe he’s being a victim of his own clan’s social statuses the pressure and fear that he feels, all of his beliefs and desires to be looked as a real man and not look as a coward in front of the other members of the clan make him responsible for the death of