There was a man who dreamed as a child of being well known and respected throughout his village and neighboring villages. This man, Okonko, worked hard at his goal, and he achieved it. Okonko, a man with great strength and personality, had achieved his goal to become rich and famous, a privilege that was unseen before in his family. Although Okonko reached his goal at an early age, his life began to Fall Apart when …showed first 75 words of 488 total…

…showed last 75 words of 488 total…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.