Okonkwo continually beats Nwoye, hoping to correct the faults f aults that he perceives in him. Nwoye – Nwoye – Okonkwo‘s oldest son, whom Okonkwo believes is weak and lazy. As a result, he behaves rashly, bringing a great deal of trouble and sorrow upon himself and his family. Okonkwo‘s tragic flaw is that he is terrified t errified of looking weak like his father. Okonkwo‘s hard work and prowess in war have earned him a position of high status in his clan, and he attains wealth sufficient to support three wives and t heir children. Since early childhood, Okonkwo‘s embarrassment about his lazy, squandering, and effeminate father, Unoka, has driven him to succeed. The author‘s initial description of Ikemefuna as an ―illpresages his eventual murder by Okonkwo the arrival of the locusts, which symbolizes s ymbolizes the eventual eventu al arrival of the colonizers Obierika‘s suggestion that Okonkwo kill himself, which foretells Okonkwo‘s eventual suicideĬharacter List Okonkwo – Okonkwo – An influential clan leader in Umuofia.A third symbol, the drums, represents the physical connection of the community of clansmen in Umuofia, and acts as a metaphorical heartbeat that beats in unison, uniting all the village members. Fire epitomizes Okonkwo‘s nature- he he is fierce and destructive. The locusts symbolize the white colonists descending upon the Africans, seeming to augur good but actually portending troublesome encounters. Two of the main symbols are the locusts and fire. The novel is highly symbolic, and it asks to be read in s ymbolic terms.The struggle between tradition and change varying interpre-tations of masculinity language as a sign of cultural difference motifs.The villagers allow the white government‘s messengers to escape, and Okonkwo, realizing the weakness of his clan, commits suicide.Okonkwo‘s murder, or uchu, of a court messenger falling action.Enoch‘s unmasking of an egwugwu, the egwugwu’ s burning of the church, and the District Commissioner‘s sneaky arrest of Umuofian leaders force the tension between Umuofia and the colonizers to a breaking point.Consequently, Okonkwo strives to be strong, masculine, industrious, respected, and wealthy. He believes his father to have been weak, effeminate, lazy, ignominious, and poor. Okonkwo also struggles to be as different from his deceased father as possible. On one level, the conflict is between the traditional society of Umuofia and the new customs brought by the whites, which are in turn adopted by many of the villagers.Lower Nigerian villages, Iguedo and Mbanta in particular protagonist.Ironic, tragic, satirical, fablelike tense.The narration is in the third person, by an omniscient figure who focuses on Okonkwo but switches from character to character to detail the thoughts and motives of various individuals.The narrator is anonymous but shows sympathy for the various residents of Umuofia.THINGS FALL APART : Chinua Achebe narrator

Another word for things fall apart