Open City Essay

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Open City Open City is book about a jungle made out of bricks, where danger can strike you at any given time and at any given place. This book has many characters but I’m going to concentrate on the main character which is Julius and compare it to okonkwo from Things Fall Apart. Okonwo is a driving person; he does things as they come instead of planning them ahead where Julius is more of a thinking man, most of the time he’ll take a walk around the city to gather his thoughts and for a better understanding of things. Julius is an intellectual man; he knows about art, music, world view etc. where Okonkwo is more of the normal man. Okonkwo is a man that faces his problems straight up, he would try as hard as he can to solve his problems one because he has a lot of pride and second because he has self-love. Okonkwo is not happy with his life, but not of him he is not happy with his city and the disappearing of his culture. Julius is not happy with his life he wants to be more of an intellectual something like a surgeon or someone like Mr, Saito. Julius seems to be depressed most of the time and that is why he takes these long walks around the city for comfort and relaxation. He’s also a mystery and a deceiving person and we see this when he is confronted by one of his patient which let us to think that he might not be as credible as we thought he was at the beginning of the book. In terms of temperament they are also different okonkwo is more of an aggressive type while Julius is more calm and passive. Julius is the type of person that likes to think a lot while Okonkwo is the more of an action man; he likes to resolve most of his problems on his way and the way he wants. Okonkwo is the type person that is not open to changes he likes things to stay the way the always been and he doesn’t know how to face this changes as the come along, Julius in the other hand
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