Who Is Nwoye In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

New things that come into people's lives that they are not familiar with will make them uncomfortable. In Things Fall Apart, When the christians came into the ibo culture, it caused the ibo tribe to be on edge and a few missionaries were killed. This was the start of the problems as they retaliate towards the ibo tribe and killed many of them in a gathering. Nwoye, the son of Okonkwo, is pulled into the christianity ways when he hears a poem that reminds him of his friend Ikemefuna and it relates to himself. The reason why Nwoye is going towards Christianity is because he was never treated good and he was not the average ibo man as his father, Okonkwo, was never proud of his son and always discouraged him. The character that is focused on in this essay is Nwoye because he has gone through …show more content…
Nwoye first connected with them when he overheard a missionary explaining a hymn and “The hymn [was] about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul--the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of ikemefuna who was killed. He felt a relief within as the hymn poured into his parched soul.” (Achebe 147). The him related to Nwoye and made him feel something he has never felt before, which made him interested in the church. When the day came that the christians were still not dead after many people predicted they would have died by now, many people started going with them and began questioning the Ibos. This lead to Nwoye checking out the church. When Nwoye was again treated terribly by Okonkwo, Nwoye makes his final decision to leave everything behind so “He went back to the church and told Mr. Kiaga that he had decided to go to Umuofia where the white missionary had set up a school to teach young Christians to read and write.” (Achebe 152 ). Nwoye makes his decision to learn more about