How Does Nwoye Change In Things Fall Apart
In the novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, cultural collision changed the way many thought about life, or how they wanted to keep doing/ going in life. The main person that it changed the most, or affected the most, in both a positive and negative way, is the character Nwoye. Before he converted to the new culture/ religion, which is Christianity, Nwoye struggled to be what his father wanted him to be, and how he wanted him to act. His father saw him as weak, and he much reminded him of his own father. Culture/ religion seems to be a very sensitive topic that's taken very seriously, and sometimes, one doesn't understand all the different negative and positive components to it, like Nwoye in Things Fall Apart. From the start, Nwoye
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“You have all seen the great abomination of your brother. Now he is no longer my son or your brother” (172). Just like all those others that had converted, Okonkwo saw Nwoye completely different, so much different that he didn’t even consider him as his son. How Okonkwo thought about Nwoye didn’t stop him though. Nwoye still believed to come back, just to see his family, and to spread his new belief. “He would return later to his mother and his brothers and sisters and convert them to the new faith” (152). Christians, such as Nwoye saw their religion to be the right religion, compared to being Ibo. Many saw this as wrong, to compare two completely different religions, and to frown upon those who followed the Ibo …show more content…
The family of Okonkwo were now left by themselves because Okonkwo had killed himself. Some believed this reason to be because his son had converted and turned away from their family/ society. Nwoye was not longer called Nwoye, his name was Isaac, and he now went to a Christian school, and learned much about where Christianity came from, and also about God. Missionaries went all through out more and more of the many villages in Nigeria, and colonized by spreading the new faith. Everything from before colonization to after made a big impact on Nwoye’s life, both good and bad. It seems to be big for him because even though he had his family before, it still seemed like he was more alone than then how he is now without his
“You have all seen the great abomination of your brother. Now he is no longer my son or your brother” (172). Just like all those others that had converted, Okonkwo saw Nwoye completely different, so much different that he didn’t even consider him as his son. How Okonkwo thought about Nwoye didn’t stop him though. Nwoye still believed to come back, just to see his family, and to spread his new belief. “He would return later to his mother and his brothers and sisters and convert them to the new faith” (152). Christians, such as Nwoye saw their religion to be the right religion, compared to being Ibo. Many saw this as wrong, to compare two completely different religions, and to frown upon those who followed the Ibo …show more content…
The family of Okonkwo were now left by themselves because Okonkwo had killed himself. Some believed this reason to be because his son had converted and turned away from their family/ society. Nwoye was not longer called Nwoye, his name was Isaac, and he now went to a Christian school, and learned much about where Christianity came from, and also about God. Missionaries went all through out more and more of the many villages in Nigeria, and colonized by spreading the new faith. Everything from before colonization to after made a big impact on Nwoye’s life, both good and bad. It seems to be big for him because even though he had his family before, it still seemed like he was more alone than then how he is now without his