'Ikemefuna Described as an Ill-Fated Lad\r'

'In the book ‘Things Fall by’ Chinua Achebe describes Ikemefuna as an ‘ menacing ill-starred comrade’. pot the meaning of this interpretation lie different literary elements that pay a gr have significance to the book, in general. Before the author describes Ikemefuna in this humankindner, he writes roughly Okonkwo’s reputation and youth. He says, referring to Okonkwo, ‘He was a wealthy farmer and had two barns full of yams, and had proficient married his third wife’. By precept these words, the author wants to show Okonkwo as a man who earned his good reputation by with child(p) work and non family wealth.\r\nHe also writes ‘And so although Okonkwo was still young, he was already virtuoso of the greatest men of his time’ meaning that age was not the problem for him to succeed in life. ‘As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings’, by stating this proverb, the author means t hat being one of those boys who ‘washed their hands’, Okonkwo believed that he himself, could treat anyone in this manner if they ‘washed their hands’. He compares and contrasts Okonkwo’s youth against Ikemefuna’s who is later on exposit as an ‘ill fated lad’.\r\n commode the description of Ikemefuna as an ‘ill fated lad’ lies foreshadowing which shows the readers that the fate of Ikemefuna is not fortunate, and in that respect provide be some event later on in the book that will prove the description right. As well as foreshadowing, the words ‘ill fated’ are a metaphor. ‘ill fated’ if translated correctly means a fate that is ill, then unfortunate. Even though the passage where Ikemefuna is described is short, there lies a lot of significance that affects the book as a whole.\r\nIf the readers would not have read those lines proverb ‘the ill-fated’ lad, they would most like ly not forestall anything unusual happening to him in the future. And because this line foreshadows the feeler of Ikemefuna’s unfortunate fate, the readers pay more upkeep to the way Okonkwo treats Ikemefuna later on in the book. They listen how Okonkwo treats him like his own son, and for the first time it is seen that Okonkwo becomes enkindle in something more than simply power and forcible strength.\r\n'