3.) I think that Okonkwo is a victim in this story due to the pressure of the war with the British and with his tribesman's inability to bring themselves to fight against the new religion. The reason I think he killed himself is that he knew that a war between his tribe and the British missionaries would never come. Meaning he would never be able to continue a normal life by his standards so, in a sense, his world would be meaningless.
Becuase he saw no other option to get his life back on track the only thing he could do, apparently, was to commit suicide and to save himself from the embarassing laziness of his failing tribe. As well as the gods anger with his tribes unwillingness to fight to save their own culture and values. In doing so he may have hoped to start anew in the afterlife and allow him to do the fighting and the labor that he loved to do.
Becuase he saw no other option to get his life back on track the only thing he could do, apparently, was to commit suicide and to save himself from the embarassing laziness of his failing tribe. As well as the gods anger with his tribes unwillingness to fight to save their own culture and values. In doing so he may have hoped to start anew in the afterlife and allow him to do the fighting and the labor that he loved to do.
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ReplyDeleteYou will continue to need work on clearly defining the points in your paragraphs. Your first paragraph should be about how the "pressures of war" make O. a victim, and the second paragraph about how "his tribe's inability to fight against new religion" makes him a victim.
Thinking is on track here, organization needs work.