Cracked Like an Egg

My prediction that I made last blog post has proven to come together fairly well. I had said that Okonkwo was like a stealth fighter airplane: unseen by the naked eye but always willing to attack. Okonkwo is a prime example of this. He is reserved, lonesome, and discouraged at interaction with others, but he is always willing to prove his braun and manhood.
A quote that intrigued me greatly was when Uchendu said "never kill a man who says nothing" (Achebe 140). This made me think of Okonkwo immediately. Something clicked in my mind, that one day Okonkwo would come to a confrontation in which he would possibly face death. Okonkwo could run into confrontation one day with one of the Christian missionaries.

Everyone around Okonkwo is changing, and Okonkwo is resilient and skeptical. Over the course of his exile, so much has changed, and he wasn't ready for the changes that came. Luckily for Okonkwo, when the Church burns down, things are starting to seem more normal for him. When things start to turn, however, the title of the book really shows. Things really do fall apart, and Okonkwo kills two messengers during the town meeting. This shows that Okonkwo is ready to kill, but the townsmen's reactions show that they are not prepared. Okonkwo sees this, flees, and hangs himself. It shows the reader that he cracked under all the pressure. I always knew that him holding all of his emotions inside of him would make him crack.