Okonkwo and His Mother: Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of African Postcolonial Discourse

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Okonkwo falls into things The Chinua Achebe novel "The Fall of Things" explains the evolution of Okonkwo's role, using changes in African tribal culture brought about by European colonization. When Okonkwo lives his life, his experience, personality and thought will be made clear to the reader. Over time, he has been increasingly faced with obstacles in his life. Okonkwo's most important challenge comes from himself. He has not only encountered problems with the relationship between Uno and Okonko. I chose this theme because it is interesting to know how the father and son are different in many ways. Though they are directly related to blood, the characteristics of Unoka and Okonkou are quite different. Unocha's father is a very lazy and useless person, and Okonkou is everything Unocha is not like. Many people are asking the same questions about this strange problem, because they like the phrase "Like a father like a son".

In Okonkwo proposed by Chinua Achebe's novel "The Separation of Things", Okonkwo wants to be respected as a person with great wealth, power, and power - this is his father's opposition . Okonkwo needs to show maximum control over himself and others; he is a commitment and an unstable person. Okonko's father, Unocha "failed", "sagging", "People make him laugh" (1426). This will be very shame to anyone as Okonkwo Okonkwo becomes a classic Greek hero in separation of things. We feel that all Umuofia endings are not very good. When the world of Okonkwo and his family truly collapsed, the coldness of fear wrapped us. Okonkwo will need all his power to combat the power of his world, but it is tragic that he is afraid of himself and be perplexed by the most devastating illness of all. Achebe tells his African story in the form of a classical Greek tragedy