YOUR TITLE GOES HERE Though not as important as Okonkwo, Nwoye plays a large role in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Nwoye’s lonely childhood and fragile relationship with his father made it easy for him to adjust to the new colonial changes, unknowingly setting the foundation for his future. Many times in the book Achebe shows that Nwoye is definitely not as outgoing as his siblings- including Ikemefuna. Nwoye hides away in his mother’s obi and tends to lack social skills. It isn’t until Ikemefuna arrives that Nwoye begins to “come out of his shell.” Achebe says that Ikemefuna was “like an elder brother to Nwoye, and from the very first seemed to have kindled a new fire in the young boy.”(39) Therefore, when Okonkwo takes part in Ikemefuna’s
