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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the strengths and weaknesses of the Nigerian male character Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s 1959 novel, 'Things Fall Apart' with the Nigerian female character Nnu Ego in Buchi Emecheta’s 1979 novel, 'The Joys of Motherhood.' Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: TG15_TGokonnu.rtf
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as the men and women who performed them. In Achebes 1959 novel, Things Fall Apart, the protagonist is Okonkwo, an old-world Igbo warrior who has allowed the time-honored traditions
of his ancestors provide his identity. In Emechetas 1979 novel, The Joys of Motherhood, the female protagonist, Nnu Ego, is limited by the constraints of Lagos patriarchal tribal culture.
Unlike Okonkwo, for whom tradition represents security, Nnu Ego has been forced to adopt the attitude, "If you cant beat them, join them." From earliest childhood, Okonkwo dedicated himself
to the pursuit of strength and the denial of weakness, to the point of refusing to indulge in anything which might be construed as effeminate or "sissy." Further complicating
matters was Okonkwos stammering, which made him the target of the taunts of his peers. Achebe wrote of Okonkwo, "Whenever he was angry and could not get his words
out quickly enough, he would use his fists" (4). Later, the fists would be exchanged for an even deadlier weapon, the machete. Relations with his father, Unoka, were
strained, because Okonkwo considered the passive flute player as weak. He represented everything Okonkwo longed to distance himself from. Gradually, he was able to transform himself into a
commanding warrior, whose exploits had become legendary among the Igbo villagers. Unfortunately, Okonkwo was more successful on the battlefield than he was off, and relations between himself and
his wife were often strained. He was a domineering father to Nwoye, hoping to instill strength in him, but this only served to alienate him from his timid son
who was not unlike Unoka. When Okonkwo began raising a young boy he had received as a "war prize" as his own son, he seemed to demonstrate a compassion
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