Eugene Achike Character Analysis

Anikwenwa as old as papa-Nnukwa , Eugene sends him out from his compound and threaten him. Moreover, he verbally attacks him by saying; he is like a fly that is blindly following the corps to the grave. Because he is traditionalist and he is heathen. The impact of colonialism, Eugene Achike is too much of colonial product. In public places, he never speaks Igbo except English but he speaks Igbo in his family, often. He urges them to speak English in outside of the house. Beatrice Achike and Amaka, daughter of Ifeoma has good opinion about Eugene’s behavior, at the very beginning. They have different view from others. According to them, Eugene’s rough behavior is the result of his stressful life style. Beatrice praise her husband to Aunty Ifeoma that he pays the school fees of more than a hundred people. Further reveals he cares more than any man should carry and he gives more to his family after the death of Ade Coker. It is too much for a single person. Ifeoma gives counter to Beatrice that the university does not pay salaries for months to Ifediora and Ifeoma, but he does not raise any single question and does not support them to protest the university.

She argues that he is not a badman; after all, he pays his father’s funeral expenses even though he neglects to attend his father’s funeral. Moreover, she explains that he is one of the persons who cannot manage with stress. Amaka starts to analysis Eugene’s behavior, environmental factors of catering for several dependants and Ade Coker’s brutal death also triggers his violence “biological and intra psychic predisposition” (Smith 519). Reuben Osborn explains people’s expose to the possibility of harmless to stressful life events thus, “Our society is replete with circumstances which might well touch of the neurotic and psychotic tendencies in the constitutionally sensitive”