I found the end of Things Fall Apart and Okonkwo's suicide to be very ironic. Since suicide is considered a sin in Igbo culture, Okonkwo's body is deemed evil so his clansmen refuse to touch it and will not grant him a true burial. Okonkwo's father, who died of a shameful illness, also did not receive a proper burial and the villagers left his body in the Evil Forest. So, even though he did everything possible to avoid weakness and be different from his father, Okonkwo, ended up exactly like his father.
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