Things Fall Apart Figurative Language Essay

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People ask, “Why the author in the novel, “Things Fall apart” uses such figurative language to describe how his people in the village he lived in changed over the period of time he lived there?” In the novel Okonkwo is a leader of Umuofia tribe and is a great one at that. He does not fear much but the one thing that he does fear is to become like his father, his dad was known for laziness and being an coward. From an early age Okonkwo was a wrestler and he worked on the farm. Later on in his life people was starting to become fond of his crops that he grew in his farm and that ended up in him becoming very wealthy. Okonkwo ended up marring three different ladies. Later on in the novel, after an accidental murder happened Okonkwo ends up adopting Ikemefuna, he treats him as if he is one of his real sons, but in actuality he really likes Ikemefuna better than he likes his other sons. Knowing that Ikemefuna will eventually get killed by his tribe, Okonkwo lies to him, telling him that he will return back to his home soon. Five years have past, and the men of Umuofia takes Ikemefuna in the forest and slaughters him. Once he had died Okonkwo had shown no emotions to avoid looking weak, but deep down it really hurts him. A few chapters later Okonkwo accidentally …show more content…
Through out this entire novel Okonkwo was compared to a “Roaring flame” because of his quick temper and dangerous warlike ways. Being known as the “Roaring Flame” Okonkwo holds all of his kids in high manner and is very strict to all of them, but he wandered how could’ve he let his son Nwoye convert to Christianity, Okonkwo was very disappointed at this (sparknotes). The author said “Living fire begets cold, important ash”, this quote explains that over time in this novel Okonkwo is an angry big fire that will learn to put himself out in one way or another because of the changes that occurs in this novel
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