In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the reader is taken on a journey to a Nigerian ethnic group, the Umuofia in the 19th century. During this journey, the reader will learn about the struggles and conflicts of a highly respected warrior, Okonkwo. Okonkwo explores Nigeria before and after the European imperial era. This fictional book documents Igbo life before and after the cultural consequences of European missionaries. Achebe criticizes imperialism. My thesis focuses on the analysis of the book Things Fall Apart. Although Okonkwo is a respected leader of the Umuofia ethnic group of the Igbo people, he lives in fear of becoming his father – a man known for his laziness and cowardice. He considers his father named Unoka to be effeminate and therefore rejects everything his father believed in or stood for. He had been ashamed of his father since childhood. His father was a talented musician and gentle with people. His father shamed his family due to his irresponsibility and debts. He did not fit the chauvinistic norms of this ethnic group. Okonkwo's behavior is the result of his determination not to be like his father. He is productive, rich, courageous, violent and opposed to music. Okonkwo became well known as a wrestler and farmer. Okonkwo's traits led him to achieve financial and social greatness. He married three wives and had several children. He works hard to provide for his family because he didn't have that growing up. He ends up adopting Ikemefuna from another village and raises him as a son. Okonokwo actually treated Ikemefuna better than his biological son. Okonokwo believed his adopted son had a lot of potential. The elders ordered that Ikemefuna be killed after three years with Okon... middle of paper ...... a few days until the villagers coughed up ransom money. Considering revenge, the Igbo people hold a war council and Okonkwo is one of the biggest proponents of aggressive action. However, during the council, a messenger from the missionaries arrives and tells the men to stop the meeting. Enraged, Okonkwo kills him with a machete. Realizing that his clan will not go to war against the white men, Okonkwo, proud and devastated, hangs himself. Okonkwo's suicide shows how things are falling apart. He was consistent throughout the book and that was his ultimate problem. He was unable to adapt or compromise in the face of the entry of Europeans into Nigeria. He let his pride and intolerance for change determine him to prefer to die rather than comply with European conditions..