Things Fall Apart: Abuse and Fear

In this novel there are many characters that capture my interest. There was a lot of problems everyone suffers from. Okonkwo the protagonist of the story is consumed by fear his whole life. He wants everything he has control of to be perfect. He has done what he could, but his first born son Nwoye isn't honorable to him. Okonkwo's reasoning to fixing these problems that has unsatisfied him is by abusing Nwoye. He doesn't just abuse his son, he abuses his wives and children so they can be perfect. Nwoye's only change has not come from his father ,but an adopted son named Ikemefuna. Later on in the story Ikemefuna is murdered by Okonkwo because of his fear towards everyone in the town seeing him as weak. The feeling I get from his family while reading this book is just seeing him as a master. There isn't any love he shows or anyone shows. To me he's really demanding and they really don't have anything to fulfill his wish. Even though his favorite child is Ezinma there is no love or affect shown to her at all.