Examples Of Nwoye In Things Fall Apart

Characterization of Nwoye Inhabited by the Ibo for countless generations, the village Umuofia is brought down to its knees in a generation of British colonization. As the British colonized areas in and around Umuofia they brought with them Umuofia's death certificate; religion. This new religion, Christianity, attracts many locals who are intrigued by the fundamental ideals which include equality, love and a personal relationship with God. No one was unsusceptible to this attraction and many people abandoned their previous faith. Things Fall Apart, a novel by Chinua Achebe depicts these conversions as men, women and children convert to the new faith. One such child who was drawn into the new faith is a child named Nwoye. Nwoye is the son …show more content…
Before Okonkwo knows it, Nwoye begins to change into a completely new person with different ideals when he begins to question the reasoning of his religion. The beginnings of this new thought process follows soon after the death of his brother and other-half, Ikemefuna. Nwoye begins to connect events and ideas in his religion that do not have just reasoning. For example, Nwoye feels something snap within him when he realizes his brother Ikemefuna has died. This feeling immediately causes Nwoye to reflect on a day of the last harvest season. On that day, he had felt the same snapping sensation when he had heard that infant twins were left to die in the Evil Forest (Achebe 61). In both instances, Nwoye realizes that he had felt a feeling of immorality descend on him and that instigates Nwoye's realizations about his own faith. Nwoye's mind begins to be flooded by questions that question the morality of the traditions and customs of his current faith. As Nwoye becomes more skeptical about his faith's true morals he also unknowingly becomes more susceptible to the Christian missionaries who begin to inhabit Umuofia preaching about Christianity's