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In Things Fall Apart, Chinue Achebe show that a mans masculinity comes from his accomplishments not his heritage.

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Actions such as crying are considered weak to Okonkwo. "Nwoye overheard it and burst into tears, whereupon his father beat him heavily." (p35)

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"'When did you become a shivering old woman,' Okonkwo asked himself, 'you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.'"Pg. 56

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"Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed" (p.21)

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"No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children he was not really a man." Pg. 45

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Okonkwo made sure Nwoye knew exactly what it meant to be masculine. "Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent-"

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The legacy of Unoka's shame would never leave his son, because he died without a title, "When Unoka died he had taken no title at all and he was heavily in debt.Any wonder then that his son Okonkwo was ashamed of him?" (Ashebe 5).

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"But he was not the man to go about telling his neighbors that he was in error. And so people said he had no respect for the gods of the clan. His enemies said that his good fortune had gone to his head." pg. 26

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"For a man's father who had no yams, there was no other way"(p.14)

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Unoka's debt was one of the main causes of his failed relationship with his son. Like the rest of the clan, Okonkow was ashamed of his father, "Peopled laughed at him because he was a loafer, and they swore never to be him any more because he never paid back (Ashebe 4)

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"Yam, the king of crops, was a man's crop"( p.15).

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Okonkwo has issues with his son Nwoye not being masculine enough. He think he takes after his mother. Okonkwo believed that listening to stories told by his mother hindered his masculine growth. "That kind of story Nwoye loved. But he now knew that they were for foolish women and children, and he knew that his father wanted him to be a man." (p. 33)

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Okonkwo got his drive to be an accomplished man through his father's failure "Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness" (Ashebe 9)

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"yam,the king of crops,was a man's crop