Chapter 7: Ikemefuna's death

          Was Okonkwo justified in killing Ikemefuna?  Personally, I don't believe that he is.  The book even states that Ikemefuna was Okonkwo's favorite son, yet the man still struck down the young boy for fear of being thought weak.  What Okonkwo did was that he acted out of spontanious instinct to maintain a certain reputation of emotional and physical strength.  In doing so, he brutally murdered the boy who trusted him as a son would a father.