Okonkwo's Ambition In Things Fall Apart

What drives an individual to succeed? Drive to succeed means that an internal or external drive that prompts a person to action in other words success.The ability to initiate and persist at a task.Putting a 100% of your time,effort,energy, and focus into your work. In the story of Things Fall Apart Okonkwo is a very successful man but his drive for succeeding was quite temporary and died off. Okonkwo a young eighteen year old was well known throughout the nine villages he brought honor to his village by fighting Allemenzai,Allemenzai was known as the cat because his back never touched the ground. He has been unbeaten for seven years until he wrestled Okonkwo whose started his success by beating him which gained him the title of being the fiercest wrestler in the whole nine villages. He also was a wealthy farmer with two titles with three barns also nine wives with thirty children that were all his. At this time period this showed leadership and nobility in other words this is what success sounded like to them.
His father's name was Oonokwo he was a debtor who owed every villager in his village money and as soon as he got money he would blow it off in a heartbeat for some rum even; even when he owed the same person he would find new ways to bribe them to give him some. He was not only a debtor but a coward as well, he hated war and alway ran away from his problems the people in the village had a name for people like Oonokwa which was efulus meaning worthless men. As Okonkwo was growing up he made a mindset that he was never going to be like his father and he stuck with that for his drive for