First Impressions of Okonkwo.

From what I've read about Okonkwo so far in Things Fall Apart I think that Okonkwo will do whatever he can to run from his past. He despises his father and everything that has to do with him. He has said this many times in the book and has expressed his feelings about his father through his relationship with his other family members. He beats Nwoye when there is even a possibility of laziness showing through in his personality. I think it is wrong that he beats his famiy, but Okonkwo just loves having family to do it to. His father had only one wife and he couldn't even take care of her. While Okonkwo has three wives and many kids, which symbolizes his wealth. I think he likes the power he has and the fact that he is wealthy enough to support three wives. Him beating his wife makes him feel like he is different than his father. Being different from his father is what he strives for in life. I don't think Okonkwo wants to get wealthy because he's money-hungry, but I actually think that his big motiviation for working hard and making a good living is the possibility of his father's characteristics showing up within himself. I think that Okonkwo will do whatever he needs to to break the similarities he might share with his father. I don't think Okonkwo is necessrily a bad human being in the fact that he beats his wife. I think in the moment it is not about what his family member did that was so bad but actually just an opportunity for him to further break the connection he might have wih his father. He wants so desperately to break all ties he might have linking him to his father. It kind of makes me sad that there isn't one thing he found positive about his father's personality. Any of the negative characteristics he saw about his father definitely outshined any positives he might have. Okonkwo was blind to all of his father's positive characteristics and focused only on the negative. If Okonkwo would open his eyes and see the good things about his father, he might find some common characteristics between he and his father that he likes about his own personality. I like Okwonko's character but I think he needs to realize that there are some things in life that you can't run away from, things that will always be with you or in your veins.