Okonkwo and Ikemefuna have a relationship that Nwoye could never have with his father. Ikemefuna was an adoptive son to Okonkwo. He was sent to Okonkwo’s village as payment for his father killing a woman of Umofia. Ikemefuna was then placed in Okonkwo’s household and was eventually seen as one of the family. In the end Okonkwo’s affection that he feels towards Ikemefuna is not enough. When Ikemefuna is sentenced to be killed, Okonkwo goes along with the group of men assigned to complete the task. On the trek “[Ikemefuna] had felt uneasy at first, he was not afraid now. Okonkwo walked behind him. He could hardly imagine that Okonkwo was not his real father” (51). Okonkwo and Ikemefuna had grown close in the three years that he had lived with
