Submitted by TheaD on November 6, 2007

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Okonkwo

One may think of Okonkwo as a hard working man who took care of his family and defended his culture. Another person may say that Okonkwo was a warrior who suffered from many insecurities such as instability and self- doubt because of anger, fear, and lastly but most importantly because of past childhood experiences with his father. For these reasons Okonkwo lived a very miserable life and also lead to his certain death. More importantly he hurt the lives of others and damaged people’s perception of life.
In Things Fall Apart because Okonkwo was determined not to end up a failure like his father Unoka. As he began to see some Unoka characteristics in Nwoye his son he was very...

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