ons for him. When news came to him that Nwoye was among the white men, one could have foreseen that only no good was coming to Okonko after that. By glancing at Okonko’s life, one could see that the title Things Fall Apart fits perfectly with the book. Starting from the episode with Ikemefuna, one can see that Okonko’s life will fall apart. Then, later on in the book, when Okonko was thrown out of his clan, one could have been sure that Okonko’s hopes of being rich and famous were ruined. After all that, with the incident of Nwoye, one could see that Okonko’s life was a total failure. Any speculator could see that Okonko had not achieved his goals, but instead, by the end of his life, he had become a failure like his father. ...
