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Okonkwo's oldest son, Nwoye, yearns for his father's love and compassion and is deprived of the unconditional love a father should provide for his son, but is not provided because it would be perceived as weakness and therefore not manly.
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Jeremy Gelbart Okonkwo's oldest son, Nwoye, yearns for his father's love and compassion and is deprived of the unconditional love a father should provide for his son, but is not provided because it would be perceived as weakness and therefore not manly. Nwoye's behaviors and characteristics such as laziness and sensitivity resemble Okonkwo's father, Unoka. Okonkwo loathed his father's to such an extreme that he swore to himself to become his father's antithesis. He receives many beatings from his father until Ilkemefuna arrives and teaches him a gentler form of successful masculinity. Nwoye becomes conflicted because, "Okonkwo encouraged the boys to sit with him in his obi, and he told them stories of the land-masculine stories of violence and bloodshed. Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell"(53). When the...
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