In at least one hundred words, compare and contrast okonkwo and his father unoka. how does unoka unwittingly shape who okonkwo becomes? use evidence from the text to support your answer.

In "Things Falls Apart" by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo's father, Unoka, was considered an effeminate coward by the clan's standards. While he had gentler traits and was a talented musician, these traits were not valued in men. Unoka never became a warrior, never took a title, and he was awful with money, "...In his day he was  lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow." This made Okonkwo so ashamed of his father that he does everything as he can to express his masculinity. To show that he was not weak like his father, Okonkwo quickly became an amazing fighter, gained wealthy, and married three wives. "As the elders said, if a child  washed his hands he could eat with kings. Okonkwo had clearly washed his hands and so  he ate with kings and elders."