Because Okonkwo likes masculinity so much, he wants others to have it too. Okonkwo says “I am worried about Nwoye. A bowl of pounded yams can throw him in a wrestling match” (57). He is worried that Nwoye doesn’t have enough masculinity because in Okonkwo’s mind that's what makes a man a man. They call Okonkwo a “Roaring Flame,” and a roaring flame is a fire. In the novel there is a proverb that says “Living fire begets cold, impotent ash” (133). Okonkwo relates himself to the fire and Nwoye to the ash showing that because he is this great fire the ones around him are ash. The struggle between change and tradition primarily shows up again at the end of the book where it is the reason Okonkwo killed himself. The white people “...drove him to kill himself” (179). The struggle between his traditional life and the change the white people brought upon the village made the book end the way it did, with Okonkwo killing himself. The themes point to other places in the
Because Okonkwo likes masculinity so much, he wants others to have it too. Okonkwo says “I am worried about Nwoye. A bowl of pounded yams can throw him in a wrestling match” (57). He is worried that Nwoye doesn’t have enough masculinity because in Okonkwo’s mind that's what makes a man a man. They call Okonkwo a “Roaring Flame,” and a roaring flame is a fire. In the novel there is a proverb that says “Living fire begets cold, impotent ash” (133). Okonkwo relates himself to the fire and Nwoye to the ash showing that because he is this great fire the ones around him are ash. The struggle between change and tradition primarily shows up again at the end of the book where it is the reason Okonkwo killed himself. The white people “...drove him to kill himself” (179). The struggle between his traditional life and the change the white people brought upon the village made the book end the way it did, with Okonkwo killing himself. The themes point to other places in the