Okonkwo's Struggles

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Okonkwo is a man known through the nine villages and even beyond. He is known for his strength and his ability. Like during one of the community festivals, in front of a lot of people, Okonkwo out-wrestled a man known as the cat in a match. And we’re told of this match, “the old men agreed it was one of the fiercest since the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights.” We noticed this in the first paragraph of the novel, so we can really notice what this book is about like their belief, of competition and struggle.
And we know from the beginning that Okonkwo is a man with high esteem not only for his ability, but also because he says “Had risen so suddenly from great poverty and misfortune to be one of the lords of his clan.” But without being affected, his status and his achievements, Okonkwo is haunted; since Okonkwo sees his father everywhere he goes. His …show more content…
And he did pounce on people quite often.” These types of things that he lived drive him to do three acts that go against a law that he cannot undo. The punishment that he received was for 7 years of exile. His first mistake was when he was beating of one of his wife during the week of peace, in that week all violence is forbidden, to honor the Earth goddess. He didn’t just tried to bit his wife, he also tried to shoot her, but he didn’t get to her and he misses. Okonkwo have problems with women through the book. He is consistently brutal and violent here is a quote that says “rules his household with heavy hand”
Okonkwo second mistake was killing Ikemefuna with his machete. Ikemefuna was the young man who Okonkwo help and raised in his house for three years, Ikemefuna become so close to Okonkwo that he stared calling him father. Okonkwo had killed a member and he like offended the earth goddess, and so he goes to exile. He and his family left the village and their home

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