Nwoye Imperialism

The novel takes place in Nigeria, main focus on the village of Umofia and Mbanta in the late 1800’s at a pre-colonial period. The novel Things Fall Apart is a fable like fictional story about a strong handed African man by the name Okonkwo and his strive for greatness. What motivates him is his rather intense fear of failure and being viewed as weak. Due to that fear he has little patience for women, childlike behavior, and even less for idleness and men who did not prove themselves. Where the title bluntly suggests, the novel is also about how the main characters life falls apart through his mistakes and the colonization of his tribe. The destruction of traditional African culture on British imperialism is the main cause of Okonkwo feeling
Nwoye was the eldest son of Okonkwo until Ikemefuna arrived, an energetic boy who was momentarily placed in the care of Okonkwo to prevent war with a neighboring village. Okonkwo indifferent at first grew fond of Ikemefuna's lively spirit and the way he mentored and inspired Nwoye who was previously resilient to learning and uninterested in the things his father preached, to Okonkwo’s disdain much like Unoka, Okonkwo's late father. Overtime Okonkwo grew to accept him as a son, and Ikemefuna as his father. Forgetting that he was owned by the clan and not Okonkwo’s kin, it came as a surprise when he was informed of Ikemefuna’s fate. He was deemed to die by the Oracle. Although Okonkwo was gravely sad, and went into a deep depression afterwards, although asked to not be associated with it, he helped kill Ikemefuna out of fear of being professed as weak. With this act Okonkwo unknowingly shattered the already buckling relationship he had with his son Nwoye. As for the toll it took on Nwoye was much greater he thought of Ikemefuna as not only a brother but as a confidant and as a role model. Immediately Nwoye secretly shunned his father and it manifested into him renouncing his faith, his father and village to convert to Christianity. He found Christianity to fill that void in his heart, Nwoye was never interested in the harshness of his father’s clan, where sensitivity was rejected
Brown and Revered Smith) tried many ways to convert the Igbo people to Christianity. They used the fact that they could inhabit the ' Evil Forest' were it was said they should die. They appealed to the “osu”, the outcasts of society, and were told that they were different than the other men, that they had worth. The osu people had to live on the fringes of society where they were not to fraternize with anyone from the inside of the clan, and the Christians found worth in them and offered them sanctuary and brotherhood. Others also joined because they preached nonviolence and those who did not like to kill or understood found this virtue pleasing like women who were taught to abandon their babies in the Evil Forest and let them die. Generally, many of the people who were deemed worthless (such as Nwoye and the Osu) in the Igbo society found their place in the church, they became enlightened and learned that how they lived did not make them any less of a person and deemed disgraceful. With the rising congregation, the missionaries slowly changed Umofia. They erected their own sense of government and severely punished and imprisoned anyone who offended their rules or their followers. With this the church not only had plenty of weapons to fight, but many of the people that converted were once noble men with great titles.
The remaining Umofia people who did not convert to Christianity wanted to fight against them but they waited too long and the effects