NAME: VILLADOLID, ROBILYN A.

YEAR/SECTION: IV. BSE - ENGLISH

THINGS FALL APART by: Chinua Achebe

“The world is such an unfair place.” This is a customary thought for most people. Many
of us complain when things in life get a little rocky and a little bit complicated and we start
to blame it all on the world, and whine how Life is so unfair. Truly, we encounter a lot of
hardships and challenges or problems as many call it in our life every day. We keep on
nagging “why”, instead of asking ourselves how. Let us learn to think and do things so
we’ll overcome these challenges before our life fully fall apart and the real thing begins.

Okonkwo was nothing like most of the young men of their village who inherited a farm or
a house from his father Unoka who was known as a debtor and owed each of his neighbors
some money. He despised his father and he mortified him. He wasn’t at all proud to be the
son of his father. His father did not have the whole capability of making his family eat
three meals a day and did not have a barn of his own. As a teen, "konkwo may have not
had the life he deserved but it did not let him down but urged him to make his life less
miserable and became a prosperous man. He even became a fearful warrior of their village
and one of their leaders and looked upon by the people. Though he did not have the
greatest start in life, still, he became a successful man with great honor and did not let
anything fear him. The whole point is, no matter how things did not start the way we want
to, things crumble in the halfway of its creation, even if things have the absolute outcome
anyone would wish for but still all fail, there will always be other matters in our lives that
will rise, make its way into, and start its way to the significance and center of our lives. It
is like, when the one you love the most does not truly love you back, it breaks your heart
and you feel rejected and neglected. But for me, it only means that person is not meant for
you. Why love someone who will never love you back. You’ll only hurt yourself. Even
more, the writer is telling us the story of Okonkwo's life, and how culture is important.
Therefore, Okonkwo is the only person who cares about the village’s tradition and culture.
He made the decision by killing himself, it made us clear that the tradition is killed, too.
We are feeling it though our generation makes us sometimes forget our culture as a
Filipino. Somewhat, it identifies our country that can cope with just some trending stuff.
“Let us not forget who we are for the meantime and reflect if we are really changing to
different culture.”