But now that I am reading it a second time I realize the main message in this story which is keeping true to you. During this whole story Okonkwo tries to be something he isn’t either it is by showing his dominance by beating his wives or by fighting the Cat. To me if you try too hard you are going to fall hard because you don’t have that chance to learn from mistakes. If Okonkwo didn’t try as hard I don’t think that his village would have been taken over, he wouldn’t have killed Ikemefuna, his daughter would be okay, and he wouldn’t have accidentally killed a villagers son. In the future I would use this lesson by just staying true to myself. I know what I am capable of and what I am not. Being true to yourself is the only way I am going to get
But now that I am reading it a second time I realize the main message in this story which is keeping true to you. During this whole story Okonkwo tries to be something he isn’t either it is by showing his dominance by beating his wives or by fighting the Cat. To me if you try too hard you are going to fall hard because you don’t have that chance to learn from mistakes. If Okonkwo didn’t try as hard I don’t think that his village would have been taken over, he wouldn’t have killed Ikemefuna, his daughter would be okay, and he wouldn’t have accidentally killed a villagers son. In the future I would use this lesson by just staying true to myself. I know what I am capable of and what I am not. Being true to yourself is the only way I am going to get