Character Analysis When the white man came with their new ideas they disrupted the ibo life.. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the main character’s son, Nwoye, is a very dynamic character and goes through an immense change. When the European’s new culture invades the Ibo community, Nwoye is quick to leave the culture he has grown up with to join the new religion because he always longed to leave. In part one of the novel, Nwoye is peaceful and effeminate kid. When Nwoye is walking home in the night he hears to babies and a mother's footsteps, at first he seems confused but he realizes it's twins, and in the culture twins are seen as evil and killed. Sickened by the murders, he thinks “Nwoye had felt for the first time a snapping inside
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Father and son relationships are very complicated and complex is a theme that is pushed through this character. Okonkwo hated his father because he failed to take care of the family, “Even as a little boy he had resented his his father’s failure and weakness…. and so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion - to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved.” (13). This repeats itself with Nwoye. Okonkwo failed to emotionally raise his son and wasn't a good father to him, so Nwoye began to resent him and eventually completely disowns him and leaves the culture Okonkwo cared for so much. The character's story arc also relates to the title of the book. When Okonkwo is raising his other 5 sons he uses Nwoye as an example, saying “‘You have all seen the great abomination of your brother. Now he is no longer my son or your brother.’” (172). Okonkwo completely disowns his son and doesn’t consider him part of the family anymore. He doesn't try to see things from his son's perspective, but stays close minded and condemns his son. Nwoye also disowns his father. The relationship the audience sees in the beginning of the book, in which Nwoye respects his father and aspires to be strong like him, is completely broken after the murder of Ikemefuna and the coming of a new religion. The father son relationship falls apart and it becomes non-existent by the end of the
Father and son relationships are very complicated and complex is a theme that is pushed through this character. Okonkwo hated his father because he failed to take care of the family, “Even as a little boy he had resented his his father’s failure and weakness…. and so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion - to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved.” (13). This repeats itself with Nwoye. Okonkwo failed to emotionally raise his son and wasn't a good father to him, so Nwoye began to resent him and eventually completely disowns him and leaves the culture Okonkwo cared for so much. The character's story arc also relates to the title of the book. When Okonkwo is raising his other 5 sons he uses Nwoye as an example, saying “‘You have all seen the great abomination of your brother. Now he is no longer my son or your brother.’” (172). Okonkwo completely disowns his son and doesn’t consider him part of the family anymore. He doesn't try to see things from his son's perspective, but stays close minded and condemns his son. Nwoye also disowns his father. The relationship the audience sees in the beginning of the book, in which Nwoye respects his father and aspires to be strong like him, is completely broken after the murder of Ikemefuna and the coming of a new religion. The father son relationship falls apart and it becomes non-existent by the end of the