Ibo Culture In Things Fall Apart

In Things Fall Apart, many points are made on the account of culture and those include talking about the ibo culture and the missionaries culture. These events of discussion on each culture can either cause a change in the society towards the society being seen as a positive or a negative, but it depends on the point of view it’s seen in. So while, Okonkwo has a sense of himself through the ibo culture while Nnwoye didn’t understand himself in the Iibo culture, yet did in the culture of the white man, through conversions he found himself, but he had to give up other parts of his life to convert.but he also lost a part of his life from this experience.

There are those who are open to change like Nwoye when he saw opportunity to see how differently
his own culture; he was open to a new culture. As a child, Nwoye wasis seen as lazy, as said in the book “was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness”(pg 23,Aachebe). The reason it caused his father anxiety was because he feared that Nwoye was becoming like hisokonkwo’s father, which Okonkwo wanted to avoid at all costs. Though for a short while Nwoye though he had figured himself out and had a desirewanted to please his father. This was the result of Ikemefuna who stepped in as the older brother and father figure he needed during the times whenwhen he believes he is unloved by his father. Ikemefuna caused is the cause that Nwoye towith actually sit and listen to “stories of the land-masculine stories of violence and bloodshed”(pg 58). He did this even tThough Nwoye disliked thisese genre of stories and would rather listen to the stories his mother used to tell him when he was younger. AThough after the death of Ikemefuna Nwoye still knew he need to act masculine, but that wasn’t what he wanted so he returnedwent back his old ways of being lazy and