Nwoye In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

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Joshua ruiz
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Things Fall Apart

Throughout the book “things fall apart” there’s has been a lot of character development with all of the people in the book, big and small.
Nwoye was an interesting side character in the book, the son of Okonkwo and brother of Ikemefuna, the journey 1we see nwoye go on is interesting and wild.
At the start of “things fall apart” nwoye is just a small child and Okonkwo is already worried about him growing up to be a “women” or to be anything like his father unoka. Tp try and prevent this from happening he is very hard and harsh toward nwoye, which pushes him away from, his father and actually does the opposite of what Okonkwo wants. Nwoye is further pushed to his sensitive, thoughtful, and even lazy …show more content…

Ikemefuna shows manliness, initiative, respect, everything Okonkwo wants in a son. Nwoye soons takes after ikemefuna and okonkwo begins to feel happiness and pride in his true son. Nwoye continue to approve in this way to okonwos liking while ikemefina stays in the compound.

After ikemefuna is killed something in nowye snaps and he falls back into his own ways, the moment he knows ikemefuna has dies nwoye breaks down into tears and okonkwo beats him, although they are both saddened by his death, nwoye is showing his “feminine side” meanwhile okonkwo is not. His stays in this sensitive side for while. later in the book okonkwo is banished from his father land and this actually opens up for a great change nwoye is going to have.

When the white men come into the village with their new religions nwoye is attracted to the people and stays around them,, okonkwo is informed of this and beats his severly and yells at him. Due to this nwoye leave his father and never comes back, he joins the christians as a convert and remains this way until the end of the book. He is labels as an acceptable lost as he had no title nor respect in the

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