With the contradiction that the energizing movement is what you want to be versus what you are at the end of the day, Okonkwo knew that he was his father's son, which meaning that no matter how hard he tried to escape the thought of being just like his father he actually was. Reality as movement is the idea that over time whatever appears to be is actually a moment in the process of becoming. Okonkwo was known to be the person everyone in the village turns to, he is a man known "in all nine villages and beyond", but his tragic mixture of virility, anger and violence leads him to self-destruct. Achebe says Okonkwo, "he seemed to walk on springs, as if he were about to spring upon someone and he did so quite often." His anger drove him to three transgressions that led to the punishment of seven years of exile; this leads him to lose respect from the village. Okonkwo's first mistake was to beat one of his wives during the Week of Peace, where violence is prohibited, to honor the Earth goddess. Not only does he interrupt Peace Week, but he completely ruins it, not only does he physically abuse his wife, he tries to shoot her, but his aim was terrible..