The Ibo tribe viewed Unoka as an efulefu, or a person who does not hold any status and was generally ignored by the clan. "In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow" (Achebe 4). By the standards of the clan, Unoka was a coward and a squanderer because he never took a title in his life, borrowed money f

Although both characters lived by completely opposite ideals, both suffered the same fate. Okonkwo and Unoka both died shameful deaths, and were thrown into the evil forest to decompose. However the biggest similarity between their deaths is that both characters died because neither could adapt to the changing world around them. Unoka was disliked by the tribe because "he owed every neighbor some money, from a few cowries to quite a substantial amount" (4). Had he conformed to the tribe's way of life instead of remain idle, he may have made more friends. In Okonkwo's case, he failed to change with the tribe because of his stubbornness to conform to the tribe's acceptance of Christianity. "He had lost the chance to lead his warlike clan against the new religion" and hated the tribe's decision so much that he felt suicide was the only way out (171). In essence, their way of life had turned upside-down, and according to Achebe's underlying theme throughout Things Fall Apart, when a system collapses, chaos follows.

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