Thoughts on Things Fall Apart

In the novel, Things Fall Apart I encountered many different things and didn't agree with how things were done in their society. I strongly feel women should be their own person and that their only purpose shouldn't be to please a man. Women should be treated equally and as a person. Just because their not perfect and the men aren't either they shouldn't get beat their grown women they didn't deserve that treatment. No one is saying what the men do wrong why don't men get beat for every tiny mistake they make? Instead if beating his wife or just using violence in general, he should talk about the issue and discuss his feelings. by doing this he hears the other person and they also hear him out. I also don't comprehend how Okonkwo killed Ikemefuna. How can you kill your "son" someone you have unconditional feelings for? To me, it seemed he admired him more than Nwoye because of how he is such hard worker and he knew as determined in the back of his mind he knew that he would make a great man one day. He had a choice not be part if his death. I felt like it was worse that he killed him. How is going to act sad after that when he is the one he killed Ikemefuna. Now if we're talking about Nwoye I feel completely sorry for him. He had a bond with Ikemefuna he looked up to him as an older brother and got close to him. When he finds that he died and his own father killed him that what breaks him like anyone else would. He was always told to be strong and how men aren't weak so he can't express his feelings to no one. He basically suppresses them which causes more pain. The author Chinua Achebe really got the readers into the novel making feel every emotion and having opinions about it.