IKEMEFUNA

Ikemefuna

• Characterization- smart, knows how to work the system, fits into what Okonkwo wants in a son, Very trusting and adjusts.
• "My father, they have killed me!" (52)

Characterization

• Characterization- smart, knows how to work the system, fits into what Okonkwo wants in a son, Very trusting and adjusts.
• "My father, they have killed me!" (52)

Role

• His character shows the fate side of the theme "Fate vs Free Will'
• Also evokes how Okonkwo feels and his fate
• "The ill-fated lad was called Ikemefuna"(8)
• "It is the kind of action for which the goddess wipes out whole families"(57)

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