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What is FEAR? Some would argue that FEAR is a documentary about ghost hunters. Others would say it is a study of human psychology. No that’s the show FEAR on MTV. So what is fear? Fear is to be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil. It is an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger. Fear is also a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of risk. Fear is apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread. Fear is a horrible thing. In Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, and Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton, both Okonkwo and Kumalo’s cultures are similarly affected by FEAR between father and son, religious beliefs and traditions, and western colonization. In the two novels, both Okonkwo’s Ibo heritage and Kumalo’s culture exercise fear amid father and son. For example, at the beginning of Things Fall Apart the author says of Okonkwo, "his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness" (13). For Okonkwo, his father Unoka represented the true meaning of failure and weakness. Okonkwo was taunted as a child by other children when they called Unoka “agbala”, which means woman or also us