Thoughts on Qs on Thur.

I think that Okonkwo is not a very nice person, to say the least. I think this because of a lot of examples. One includes when he tried to shoot his second wife simply because that she said he did not have a good shoot. While this turned out to be partly true, He does not need to try to shoot his wife to prove it. Another example is when he killed Ikemefuna. Even when he was warned not to go, Okonkwo still went. What that chapter makes me not like him is that he was the one to kill poor Ikemefuna. What makes me disturbed is that Ikemefuna saw Okonkwo as a father, So he ofcourse ran to Okonkwo when the intended blow missed, immediately Okonkwo butchered Ikemefuna down. The last thing is the general treatment of his wives and children. In multiple parts of the book, Okonkwo would beat up his wives for not cooking correctly, cutting the leaves when he did not want them cut, really for just about anything. For the kids, if they cried, messed up, did not do something properely are reasons that he beat up his kids. Epsiacally Nwoye which his father viewed him as weak and therefore beat him up about anything. Those are the main reasons that I personally don’t like Okonkwo in the book “Things Fall Apart.