Androcentricty In Things Fall

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woman. As a child, Okonkwo was teased by other kids when they called his father "Agbala". "Agbala" is a Ibo word used in reference to a man who had taken no title or simply "woman". Unoka, Okonkwo’s father, was the exact epitome of failure and weakness to Okonkwo. Because of this "Okonkwo was ruled by one passion- to hate anything his father had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness"(13). Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye, reminded him of his father, and he describes Nwoye as womanly, just as his father had been. Okonkwo showed great dislike for his son by beating him and calling him names. However, he favored his daughter, Ezinma, the most out of all his children. "If Ezinma had been a boy [he] would have been happier." (66) Okonkwo thought Ezinma had "the right spirit"(66) to be a man because she was strong and loyal.
The society that Chinua Achebe described in his book, Things Fall Apart, is also based on agriculture. The major crop the Ibo tribe grew was ...

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