In chapter 3 it talks about how Okonkwo made all of his money alone because Unoka never had a successful harvest. When he visited the Oracle he was told he failed because of how lazy he was. Because of that he died of a shameful illness. It was "swelling which was an abomination to the earth goddess. Unoka never held any of the community's four titles that had to be paid for and left a lot of debts unpaid. Okonkwo couldn't count on his father for any help financially or physically with constructing an obi so he had to do it himself. He succeeds in exceeding other clansmen as a warrior, farmer, and family provider. He asks a wealthy clansmen, Nwakibie, to give him 400 seed yams to start a farm. Nwakibie ended up giving him 800 because he liked what he saw. Another one of Unoka's friends gave him 400 more seed yams, but because of terrible droughts, Okonkwo could only keep one-third of the harvest. That year was a devastating harvest.