ThingsFallApart_Journal7

Did Okonkwo make the right decision?

On last few chapters, Okonkwo had some moments that he has to make life-depending choices. The last choice that he made before hanging himself was killing the white man. Was this a wise choice to made? No, it was a bad decision. After reading hundreds of pages about Okonkwo, we realized that he is a very strict, stubborn, and self-centered person who does not want to show his weakness to the others but he should have used his wise part of the brain before justifying himself with the reasons to kill a white man which will change nothing. Ok, here is the question: "what has changed after Okonkwo killing the white man and committing suicide?". The answer is unfortunately, 'nothing'. Even though Chinua Achebe wrote various more chapters for his story, it would have been about how the Ibo people's life were same and conventional as a imperialized nation, not about the achievements and changes that Okonkwo brought to them which really did not exist. Okonkwo is just a gone-wrong hero.