How Does Enzima's Character Change

Chinua Achebe once said, “Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am and what I need-is something I have to find myself.”. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, he demonstrates how the characters change when the British come and how the new religion brought by the British impacts them. Okonkwo, the main character, has a daughter named Enzima that was impacted a lot with the colonization. Enzima was always a “daddy’s girl”, but she is trying to become who she wants to be and let her father go, with her coming of age. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, he shows us that you are what you want to be, not what people think you are. In the novel, Achebe shows many examples of how Enzima lets people tell her how to live and who to be. Enzima is one of two daughters of Okonkwo and is his favorite child, which Okonkwo makes very clear in the book. For example, in chapter five Okonkwo explains his favoritism toward Enzima, “Okonkwo was …show more content…
In chapter twenty-three, Enzima worried about her father so much that she broke customs to be with her family, “His daughter Enzima had broken her twenty-eight day visit to the family of her future husband, and returned home when she heard that her father had been imprisoned, and was going to be hanged...Enzima was satisfied that something was being done.” (Achebe 197). This is a key example of how much Enzima cares and wants the best for the people she loves. Enzima is like this in my opinion because she is strong and has alway been around strong people. She really kept everything together when she had the right the fall apart. In addition, I think that Enzima is like this because she was a favorite of her father’s and wanted everyone else to like her too. Enzima always wanted to be their for everyone else because everyone was there for