Blog Report 3- Madison Klump

In the Book “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe the dad, Okonkwo, tries throughout the book to not be like his father. Okonkwo feels like his father was not a real man. In the book Okonkwo starts off by being this scary mean guy. For an example on page 10 it states that Okonkwo “was a man of action, a man of war. Unlike his father he could stand the look of blood” and how he came home from war with a human head (Achebe 10). It also say’s that he “never showed any emotion openly, unless it be emotion of anger. To show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength” (Achebe 28). Okonkwo’s fear was “of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father” (Achebe 13). So, he is saying that he cannot and will not be like his father. In the book it says that “even as a little boy he had resented his father’s failures” (Achebe 13). But at the end of the book he ends up being just like his dad. The first reason why I say that he ended up being like his dad was because Okonkwo got himself and his family banned from their village for 7 years and they had to move to Okonkwo’s mother’s village. The last reason is because it states that “then they came to the tree from which Okonkwo’s body was dangling, and they stopped dead” (Achebe 207). I believe that this statement states how he was just like his dad because back then hanging yourself was a cowardly and not a manly way to die.