Still a young man, Nwoye, tries hard to please his father on his work ethic but it seems that nothing exceeds what Okonkwo wants. Okonkwo yells at him and tortures him for not being man enough. Textual evidence in the novel shows, “If you split another yam, of this size, I shall break your jaw” Okonkwo was yelling at Nwoye because he wasn’t cutting the yams the way his father wanted it. Okonkwo wants his son to grow up and work hard and be a good man. He’s doing this because he doesn’t want Nwoye to go down the same path Okonkwo did growing
Still a young man, Nwoye, tries hard to please his father on his work ethic but it seems that nothing exceeds what Okonkwo wants. Okonkwo yells at him and tortures him for not being man enough. Textual evidence in the novel shows, “If you split another yam, of this size, I shall break your jaw” Okonkwo was yelling at Nwoye because he wasn’t cutting the yams the way his father wanted it. Okonkwo wants his son to grow up and work hard and be a good man. He’s doing this because he doesn’t want Nwoye to go down the same path Okonkwo did growing