In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo was motivated by fear, specifically the fear of change. Okonkwo depended on the stability of Umuofia, because he based the meaning of his entire life on the structure of the village. Okonkwo needed this stability because of his childhood and the strenuous relationship between him and his father. While Okonkwo was in exile, the village of Umuofia changed and Okonkwo was unable to adapt to the new ways of his village. Okonkwo opposed the change and died along with the old ways of Umuofia. Change is inevitable, and those who are too afraid to adapt are left behind. As a child, Okonkwo resented his father, Unoka, who was lazy and irresponsible. He incurred a large amount of debt and brought dishonor to his family. Okonkwo feared he would be a failure, like his father. Okonwo, “all life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness… It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and magic, the fear of the forest and nature, malevolent, red-toothed and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external, but lay deep within him. It was fear of himself, for fear of finding himself resembling his father. Even as a child he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he remembered how he had suffered when a playmate told him that his father was agbala. (160). Umuofia's values ​​are the exact opposite of Unoka's values. Okonkwo set his ultimate goal: to become an honorable member of the village, possess many titles, and obtain everything necessary to demonstrate his importance in the community. As a result, Okonkwo decided to be everything his father was not: a stern man and po... in the middle of a sheet of paper... as if dangling... "It's against our custom," said one of the men. "It is an abomination for a man to take his own life. It is an offense against the Earth, and a man who commits it will not be buried by his clansmen. His body is evil and only outsiders may touch it. This is why we ask to your people to put it down, because you are strangers” (207), suicide is an “abomination” and any man who commits suicide is considered “evil” and no man of the clan can touch his body , Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo appears to be the supreme warrior when in reality he was consumed by fear Okonkwo spent much of his life trying not to look like his father, which led him to contest the change. at the end of the novel, Okonko commits the ultimate crime: suicide In Igbo culture, suicide is dishonorable: Okonkwo ended up like Unoka, after all.