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Read the excerpt below and answer the question. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. In this excerpt from Things Fall Apart, what is it that Okonkwo fears more than anything else? turning out to be just like his father having to kill his adopted son Ikemefuna facing the wrath of the priestess of Agbala dying without having produced a male heir

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Turning out to be just like his father
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I love this story! His greatest fear is turning out to be just like his father who is lazy, cowardly, and unable to support his family
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