Relationship Between Okonkwo And Ezinma

Many people tend to treat their children equally to keep the tension low. Spreading equality within children is very important, especially your own. On the other hand, Okonkwo didn't seem to really spread equality. He treated his son Nwoye and his daughter Ezinma fairly different. Okonkwo seemed to fill Nwoye with fear of his own father, which made the relationship distant between them. The reasons for that was mainly because “Nwoye was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness”. With Ezinma, Okonkwo expressed different types of feelings, such as caring and having great concern for her. Mainly his care for her was due to where Ezinma had the “right spirit and alone understood Okonkwo’s every mood”. Due to how he treats …show more content…
At first, he was greatly afraid of Okonkwo, and even tried running away a couple of times. Nwoye’s mother treated him well, like one of her own. “When Okonkwo heard that he would not eat any food and stood over him while he swallowed his yams, trembling. A few moments later he went behind the hut and began to vomit painfully.” Although Okonkwo was greatly feared by Ikemefuna, he overcame his fear. “He was ill for three market weeks, and when he recuperated, he seemed to have overcome his great fear and sadness” (Achebe, 28). Eventually, Ikemefuna and Nwoye became fairly close, and helped Nwoye and his father’s relationship.
Enzima is Okonkwo’s eldest daughter and Ekwefi’s only child. The girl has a very close relationship with her mother and is Okonkwo’s favorite daughter. Okonkwo although, has basically been a man who only valued masculine qualities, and desired she had been born a boy. Even though he desires she was born a boy, he shows how much he admires and values her. She seems to be following more into her father’s steps rather than Nwoye. One of the main aspects in why her father seems to adore her so much, is that she shows quality of