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Ezeudu, Obierika, and Uchendu are respected elders in their villages in the story, Things Fall Apart. Achebe uses old men in his story as a source and guide of wisdom and strength, as well as character development to Okonkwo. It reflects as the story progresses until it affects all of Umufia.
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Obierika was a man who thought about things. When the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend's calamity. Why should a man suffer so grieveosly for an offense he had committed inadvertently?… What crime had they committed?…(pg.125).
The last major influence in this sullen story is Uchendu. This is the chief of Okonkwo's mother's kinsmen tribe. He brings to light many of the powers that a mother has in the life and role of children and wives, a balance of sort to the seemingly iron po ....
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