Kiwi- things fall apart

“ Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father. Okonkwo was clearly cut out for great things” (Achebe 8). In the beginning of the novel, Okonkwo states that he does not respect his father, Unoka, because he was not seen as a man to the village. Unoka is seen as a coward and is looked down upon because he owed money to many people, he never took a title and he never became a warrior. Okonkwo was a man because of what he had. “His fame rested on solid personal achievements”(Achebe 3). He was successful because he had two farms, three wives, and had thrown the Amalinze Cat, which gave him a title in his village. Okonkwo then gets thrown out of his village because he accidentally kills a boy of their own. My prediction of part two is that Okonkwo will lose everything he has. Ironically he will still believe he is a man, but according to his own standards of what a “real” man is, he technically be considered the same as his father, a coward.