Things Okonkwo does to others...

Okonkwo treats people with disrespect and looks down upon them. He thinks that everyone has to be manly and can’t show emotion. If someone does show emotion Okonkwo disciplines them. An example of this was when his second wife went to get her haircut and she wasn’t back in time for dinner. Okonkwo waited till she got home and then threatened to kill her by sticking a gun to her head. He only cares about himself rather than others. If someone isn’t doing something his way he will yell and beat them. He thinks that he is god like and that everyone should be like him. He wants his children to be manly and not be failures like his father was. The reason why Okonkwo is like this is so that he wont turn up to be like his father who is a failure and has no future in his life. When Nwoye left to be with the missionaries and Okonkwo heard about this, he tried to kill him. He tried to choke him and took his anger out on Nwoye. Okonkwo expresses his anger in a physical manner. Okonkwo has so much on his mind, most of it being anger, so his way of letting it go is being physical. I think that you the worse thing you can do is to kill a family member and Okonkwo did this. He killed Ikemufuna even though Ikemufuna did nothing. He killed his innocent “son” and Ikemufuna had made such an impact on people especially Nwoye. He was an older brother for Nwoye and taught him ways to be strong, but Okonkwo ended this. Overall, Okonkwo is rude, and has no respect for anyone but himself.