Okonkwo's Relationships

The relationships in the story of Things Fall Apart are quite odd. Okonkwo in the story is afraid of not being manly and ending up like his father. His father ended up badly and he doesn't want the experience of being a failure. Meanwhile it seems as if his son, Nwoye has been following his grandpa's steps. This is the story of how their relations have future and have them.affected the lives of them and many others. But being this way will make change in the The childhood of Okonkwo is what has shaped his life during his adult days. Wanting himself to be seen as a strong working man to the village. As he has proved himself many times, this is yet not enough for him. “Okonkwo was a very strong man and rarely felt fatigue” about anything. But his 12 year old son Nwoye was seeming to be lazy to and “was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness.” Okonkwo wanted his son to be strong, but since he wasn't he would beat him so that he would understand.
He would always borrow money that he would never pay back. No matter what he would always find a way to get money for wine to drink and relax. He was always lazy and wouldn't do much other than that daily. Okonkwo didn't want to follow that example and “whenever the thought of his father’s weakness and failure troubled him he expelled it by thinking about his own strength and success. And so he did now. His mind went to his latest show of manliness.” At this point in the story he has had adopted a son into his family named’ ‘Ikemefuna’ from another tribe. He liked him very much because of his strength and the type of brother that Nwoye looked up to and started to become more other than his lazy