Self-awareness How Okonkwo’s hatred motivates him to be better

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CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION

Human’s life always goes differently. As a result, human being undergoes certain steps in his life. In other words, human being develops and changes during his lifetime. Somehow, life does not always give happiness to human being; sometime sadness and happiness come in turn to human being depend on their effort to get happiness in their life. Likewise sadness comes to Okonkwo’s life that makes him try to throw the sadness from his life. Literary as the imitative of real life also applies a sad story to its character equal with real life. To signify Okonkwo’s hatred his father, the theory of literature that is used are: theory of new characterization and theory of emotional intelligence. Okonkwo suffers many adversities in his adulthood and young manhood. Having father like Unoka, who is known in his clan as a weak man and a lazy man, moreover bad fortune followed Unoka until to his tragically death, he do not give any pride to his family. Therefore, Okonkwo feels shame to his father failure and make him hatred all of the bed character of his father that make him into failure. Okonkwo determines to become a man who is totally different from his father. In the meantime, Okonkwo’s personality develops hand in hand with his prestige. he is founded that his life is dominated by fear and hate. He hate of his father laziness and fear to become like his father. So he tries to become opposite of his father. He wants to become a rich, successful, strong and respectable man in his life. He tries to make his life better than before.