Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe In Things Fall Apart, we guarantee a conflict early in the story amongst Okonkwo and his pay back, Unoka. Okonkwo was ruled by one passion - to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness (Achebe 13). Unoka was considered to be a failure. Okonkwo did not receive anything from his father and he had to start out(a) with nothing. His finish chi in life was to obtain spectacular wealth and to have many wives and children. The Ibo people considered these things signs of success. Yet, his greatest goal was his desire to become one of the powerful elders of the clan. It is Okonkwos inner pettishness and bitterness over his fathers failure that seemed to be the driving twinge behind everything he did in life. This was evident in the accompaniment that he always felt as though he had to do what was manly and he hated weakness.
        Just as Okonkwo did not wish to be like his father, Nwoye did not want to be like Okonkwo. Nwoye possessed traits that Okonkwo did not such as gentleness, forgiveness, and acceptance. Okonkwo saw these as signs of weakness. Okonkwo never showed any emotion openly, unless it be the emotion of anger.
To show affection was a sign of weakness; the only thing worth demonstrating was strength (Achebe 28). Okonkwo considered Nwoye to be futile and cherished him to be a success like himself. Okonkwo wanted his son to be a great farmer and a great man. I will not have a son who cannot hold up his head in the aggregation of the clan. I would sooner strangle him with my own hands (Achebe 33). This is an type of the difference in personal beliefs...
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