'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow in...

'...No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. i have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.'

The truth, which Okonkwo knows but cannot bring himself to state, is that Nwoye is what he is because there is in him too much of