Okonkwo in Things fall apart
When a hammer meets a selection of fine china, the fine china breaks and shatters. However, if the fine china is replaced with Play-Doh (that wonderful substance that reeks of "non-toxic" chemicals), the Play-Doh molds and conforms to the hammer; it changes. This may sound utterly fruitless; however, the Play-Doh is still recognizable as Play-Do, while the china exists as a collection of glass. The china's refusal to change causes it to break. The Play-Doh accepts change and lets the force mold it into something new, yet something that still resembles Play-Doh. Okonkwo of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, like the selection of china, refuses to change. This refusal causes a "loss of self" comparable to the china's loss of form, and, due to this refusal, he breaks, or, as shown in the novel, kills himself. Evidence of this negation to change can be found in points in the novel when change is forced upon Okonkwo.It may be pertinent to define what Okonkwo's self is. He had an extre
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Approximate Word count = 666
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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