Within the Ibo culture a man’s status is determined by his personal accomplishments as those with more accomplishments often have more money. Such accomplishments usually involve a physical feat like Okonkwo’s victory over Amalinze the Cat, a great wrestler who was unbeaten through the clans for 7 years; Okonkwo’s success as a warrior, he had taken 5 heads of war …show more content…
A disappointment to his father, Nwoye finds solace in the hymns of the Evangelists. For him, his father represented the masculine ideals and traditions of Ibo society, and so, in his failure to reach his father’s standards, he also failed to feel at home within the culture he was born to. The evangelists presented a society that would accept him, one whose own hymns appealed to the doubts he had about his clan 's traditions, describing, “brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer...the question of Ikemefuna who was killed” (Achebe 147). By his fear of what Nwoye might fail to become, Okonkwo ended up ensuring Nwoye’s failure. And so, Nwoye become a Christian and Okonkwo disowned