Change In Chinua Achebe's Things Falls Apart

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Humans go through changes as they move on with their lives. Throughout history, changes have occurred and will continue over time. In Things Falls Apart, Chinua Achebe shows that people can change their reaction toward things. Nwoye had viewed the world like his father, Okonkwo. He shifts from obeying his father and the rules of the Igbo culture. Then he has slowly developed into the Western Christianity world. In this novel, Chinua Achebe shows that humans face challenges and can change through the influences of others surrounding them.
In addition to facing challenges, Nwoye tries to be someone his father would dream of him being. Nwoye isn’t proud of who he is becoming and who is father is. His father treats him badly like he's worthless and beats him because Nwoye hangs around his mother. He describes Nwoye …show more content…

In the novel, Okonkwo is describing his past and his father, Unoka, who is someone he would never become. Then, he runs off talking about Nwoye.”... He was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness. At any rate, that was how it looked to his father, and he sought to correct him by constant nagging and beating. And so Nwoye [has developed] into a sad-faced youth,”(23). This shows that Nwoye isn’t happy with the things happening around him. He’s being taught things that shouldn’t be happening at a child's age. Being nagged and beaten isn’t a happy youth-life. Okonkwo talks to Obierika, Nwoye dad’s best friend about how his son should resemble him and be proud him. Instead, Okonkwo is says that Ezinma, Nwoye’s sister would make a better son rather than Nwoye. “‘[He] is old enough to impregnate a woman. At his age I was already fending for myself. No, my friend, he is not too young. A chick that will grow into a cock [will] be spotted [that] very day it hatches. I have done my best

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