“Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.” (P.153) In Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, Okonkwo kills himself because of Nwoye’s failure to follow in his footsteps. Throughout “Things Fall Apart”, Nwoye has been proving himself time after time a failure to his father. Nwoye was the opposite of his father, he was more like his grandfather, Unoka.. His laziness, degenerate and effeminate behavior, and finally his succumb to the white man drove Okonkwo to …showed first 75 words of 734 total…

…showed last 75 words of 734 total…s age Okonkwo had already become famous throughout Umuofia for his wrestling and his fearlessness. He sighed heavily, as if in sympathy the smoldering lag also sighed. And immediately Okonkwo’s eyes were opened and saw the whole matter clearly. Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. He sighed again, deeply.” Okonkwo, being failed by his first born son, drove himself mad. In the end, Okonkwo saw no more way but death and he took it.