Chapter+20-25+EuniceC

Okonkwo commits suicide at the end. He does that to avoid shame he would have faced, in his own definition of 'manliness'. Personally, though, I would think that facing it fully is more manly. Of course, he had other choices as well. From the beginning, he could have suppressed his anger and convinced the others to fight with the white men. Or, even after killing a white man, he could have run away or just faced the trial. As a man who takes his clan's customs very importantly, he should not have committed offense toward the Earth and his gods. As one of the leaders and the strongest warrior of the clan, I was expecting more responsibility to Okonkwo, and I never imagined that he would die just like that, leaving his clan behind.