The relationship between Okonkwo and his son Nwoye played a significant role in Things Fall Apart because it indicated another downfall of Okonkwo. ... Okonkwo was harsh with his son because he worried that Nwoye would end up like Unoka, Okonkwo's father. ... Throughout the book, the two became increasingly distant and Okonkwo's disappointment in his son became apparent. ... Although the Christian missionaries seemed to have a positive affect on Nigerian society with their aspiration to lend a helping hand, their motivations became deadly, even fatal to the lives of some native pe...

• Word Count: 1635
• Approx Pages: 7

In both novels the decline of the native culture is traced through the downfall of an individual, Okonkwo, in the first novel, and his grandson Obi, in the second. ... Native people of colonised regions were generally regarded as savage heathens by missionaries, but it is evident from Things Fall Apart that complex set of belief were in existence. ... One of these is Okonkwo's son, Nwoye: The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul - the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question o...

• Word Count: 2919
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

When his son Nwoye converts to Christianity, he reacts with anger and violence. ... Okonkwo rightfully views the Christians as a danger to the clan and resists their beliefs, even if it means harming his own son. ... His son betrays him and his fellow clan members take little notice of his importancereturn. ... Okonkwo's journey shows the devastation of the native culture and the death of a way of life. ...

• Word Count: 1186
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Okonkwo witnessed his own sons devotion towards Christianity as a betrayal of the coveted relationship between fathers and sons. ... The commissioner became the true symbol of Imperial authority in the region, with modern weaponry and cooperative natives to undertake his bidding. ...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because France was at war with Germany, and she, a French native, was in love with a German soldier, it was socially unacceptable to be in love with the enemy, just as it was socially unacceptable for her to be in love with a Japanese man after the bombing of Hiroshima. ...

• Word Count: 2771
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate