Analyzes III (Chapter 7)

You know how the phrase goes, 'you can't judge a book by its cover'? Well, Okonkwo thinks the opposite. He WANTS to be judged by how he looks, how he acts around people and react in situations. One of these situations is when the boy from the rival tribe is supposed to be killed. The boy was told that he had to "supposedly" go back to his home tribe. Now, the boy has become something as a son to Okonkwo, who looks at Okonkwo as a father. After being sliced with a machete by a tribesman, the boy runs to Okonkwo for help. Feared of being viewed as a coward in front of the others, Okonkwo cuts down the boy with his own machete.

                  It is not widely known that there is a slice of cake at the bottom of the mountain.


It is here that I have established Okonkwo as a  maniacal, boasting sociopath.