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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.
Achebe first uses the wisdom of the elder, Ezendu, as he directs Okonkwo not to kill his adopted son, Ikemefun ....
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.... well as for the seeds that were sold to sharecroppers. He was also a man who could reflect deeply, as described in the following paragraph:
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).
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