Compare and contrast Okonkwo and his father in Things Fall Apart.

and his sonappear to be polar opposites. Unoka was an ineffectual, dreamy man who
achieved little. He loved music and drinking, was poor and lazy, took no titles, and died
heavily in debt. His character was feckless and improvident, and his small family seldom had
enough to eat. Most disgracefully, he was a coward with no aptitude or appetite for
fighting.

Okonkwo has no patience with failure or idleness and consequently
despises his father. Even while still young, he has achieved fame as a wrestler and as a great
warrior in the inter-tribal conflicts. He is also a wealthy man with two barns full of yams and
three wives. He has achieved all this by himself through hard work since his father left him
nothing. He has taken two titles and is universally respected.

Okonkwo is so
ashamed of his father that he even detests the positive or harmless aspects of his character,
disdaining music because Unoka loved it. However, he may resemble his father more than he would
like to...