Why do you think Okonkwo kills himself? Please address the pressure/standards that Ibo culture imposes upon him i.e., how the story sets him us “as a fish out of water,” also consider how these standards do not seem to prepare him for the challenges that confront him as a result of encountering the British.
I think that Okonkwo kills himself because everything just built up inside of him and so he decided to give up. Okonkwo probably knew that he was going to die anyway because of the man he killed and he knew that the British wouldn’t allow him to live after that. It could be argued that Okonkwo killed himself to prove a point, becoming a martyr of sorts but I feel like the pressure of being exiled and then the dissapointement of coming back to things that aren’t the way they were before or the way they were supposed to be got to him and he felt like life wasn’t worth living anymore.
Okonkwo is set up like a fish out of water because his traditions, traditions that have been around for years and years in his culture are ending and changing. So like a fish out of water speaking metaphorically Okonkwo can’t breathe because things are changing and falling apart and there’s nothing Okonkwo can do to fix it. The Ibo culture is so fixed on tradition that there’s no room for a little give or take. I feel like not having the ability to adapt and the pressure of the Ibo society helped contribute to Oknokwo’s death.
I think that Okonkwo kills himself because everything just built up inside of him and so he decided to give up. Okonkwo probably knew that he was going to die anyway because of the man he killed and he knew that the British wouldn’t allow him to live after that. It could be argued that Okonkwo killed himself to prove a point, becoming a martyr of sorts but I feel like the pressure of being exiled and then the dissapointement of coming back to things that aren’t the way they were before or the way they were supposed to be got to him and he felt like life wasn’t worth living anymore.
Okonkwo is set up like a fish out of water because his traditions, traditions that have been around for years and years in his culture are ending and changing. So like a fish out of water speaking metaphorically Okonkwo can’t breathe because things are changing and falling apart and there’s nothing Okonkwo can do to fix it. The Ibo culture is so fixed on tradition that there’s no room for a little give or take. I feel like not having the ability to adapt and the pressure of the Ibo society helped contribute to Oknokwo’s death.
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ReplyDeleteHad your work been in on time you would have scored very well. Your second paragraph, in which you are just talking about why we can think of him as a "fish out of water," is much more coherent. In your first paragraph, you should just be discussing ONE: everything has built up inside him, he did it to prove a point, he didn't want things to change. Each of these can be its own paragraph.
Great thinking here. Get your work in on time!