[Music] there are many characters in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart key among them are Okonkwo's family and his closest friend the novel's main character Okonkwo is a respected leader who has overcome his father's reputation to achieve great success as a warrior and farmer hyper-masculine and fearful of feminine weakness Okonkwo is quick to anger often violent and ruled by one passion to hate everything his father had loved this rigidity harms his family and society he's ultimately unable to adapt to the changes brought by Europeans and he commits suicide rather than endure colonized society though a gentle and gifted musician Okonkwo's father única is judged by the clan as lazy his crops were poor because he preferred playing his flute and drinking wine to farming he was also seen as a coward because he was afraid of war when única died he was in debt to all of his neighbor's his son Okonkwo is driven to hate everything about him akima funa comes to the clan as payment for a murder committed by one of his tribesmen the elders place him with Okonkwo who puts his first wife in charge of the boy II came of funa eventually comes to feel at home in a mafia and Okonkwo and his family grow to love him as a son and brother Okonkwo's oldest son nuo yi develops an especially close bond with akiima funa okonkwo betrays this love by delivering the fatal blow in akiima Funes murder Okonkwo's oldest son Louie experiences the full brunt of his father's discipline Okonkwo fears that Moyie will grow up weak and feminine like Annika so he is particularly hard on him no he develops a close bond with he came a funa but when he came a funa is killed neue cuts himself off from his father with the arrival of European missionaries no he brakes entirely from his father's influence and converts to Christianity equi fee is Okonkwo second wife she was attracted to him when she saw his legendary wrestling victory she couldn't marry him then because he was too poor but once he achieves success she left her husband for Okonkwo the loss of her first nine children forged a close connection to him and okonkwo shows more care and concern for her than his other wives equi fee is particularly close to her only child azeema and treats her daughter like an equal a Zenith is Okonkwo's only child with his second wife equi fee she's close to her mother and Okonkwo's favorite he shows a special connection to her and respects her boldness often wishing she were a son Obi Rica is a conquest closest friend like Okonkwo he has achieved great status within the clan he too has multiple wives and children during Okonkwo's exile from moi via OB Rika cares for his land and property Oba Rica is more nuanced in his thinking than Okonkwo and able to express himself he rebukes Okonkwo for participating in ek mo Funes murder tells him to have patience with his children and cautions him about the power of the missionaries you