In things fall apart, why does okonkwo refuse to show affection toward ikemefuna? click here to read an excerpt. okonkwo fears that he will lose his status among other men. ikemefuna assumes that okonkwo prefers him to his own son. okonkwo does not want nwoye to be jealous of ikemefuna. ikemefuna desires no favoritism be shown him by okonkwo.

Okonkwo fears that he will lose his status among other men.

Explanation:

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."