Okonkwo: Victim, Villain, or Hero?

At the end of Things Fall Apart the reader is left with many opinions about the character Okonkwo.  What opinion have you formulated about Okonkwo?  Use specific examples from the text to support your opinion.  Consider Okonkwo's motivations. Is Okonkwo a victim, a villain, or a hero?

Things Fall Apart & The Second Coming

The WB Yeats poem "The Second Coming" is cited in the foreward to the novel Things Fall Apart.  After you have finished reading the novel and the poem, why do you think this poem is an appropriate choice to introduce the main themes highlighted in the novel.  What is the meaning to the Yeats poem? How does this correlate to the meaning of the novel?