Being a father can mean very different things to different people, in this book Okonkwo sees being a father in an incomparable way to the way his father Unoka saw it. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo struggles to play both the role of a leader, and a father. Okonkwo sees no desire in creating meaningful relationships with those in his life. He chooses society's opinion of him versus his family's. As the story progresses it becomes more clear that Okonkwo deals with his emotions in irrational ways, causing harm to those who are close to him. His concept of power is skewed and he uses it to diminish the value of others. He refuses to show weakness, because he fears being seen the way his father was. On the day of peace, Okonkwo
