Things Fall Apart

Things fall Apart:
Perhaps the most interesting thing about "Things Fall Apart" is Achebe's character: Okonkwo and Hemingway's Cohn. Both authors start off describing these characters strongest points and how thoses pionts make them week, both of them want to be liked or excepted but fail. Okonkwo does this by making it his personal goal not to display any of the qualities that were like his fathers. Because of this he was a rich man with several wives and was well know throughout all the villages. Cohn was admired for his ability to stay calm and not fight although he was a boxer, the same way in which Okonkwo was admired for his display "manliness". Unfortunately, Cohn snapped one day by beating up the bull fighter and that display of anger became his down fall, the same way in which Okonkwo's need to be ultra manly leads to his distruction at the end of the novel.