Nwoye Quotes From Things Fall Apart

Nwoye is one of the characters that shows the culture clash in its full effect on both sides for an individual and for the old culture. We see that it impacts him very positively but it’s still not cool to take over a culture of another peoples. We see that Nwoye is one of the men of the tribe that doesn’t necessarily agree with their cultures and is facing an internal struggle all through part one.

Nwoye is looked down as weak by his father. In the Ibo culture a man should be a man, war loving, aggressive, made by their own, Nwoye just isn’t that in his father’s eyes. He’s felt that some of the customs his people had were disgusting and did not agree with them at all. Some of these traditions was the beating of women and children, the beating

His family was banished for their tribe and was sent way to Okonkwo’s mother lands tribe for a crime Okonkwo did not mean to commit but banished regardless. The missionaries show up and they begin to win some of the Ibo people with their new all-powerful God. Eventualy some missionaries show up to the tribe that they now reside in and tell the story of the father the son and the Holy Spirit. These stories did not captivate him but the hymns of peace and the acceptance of everyone into their church Is what amazed him. We see this at the end of chapter () that Nwoye has this idea “ “ pg.( ) we see a couple of things. We see that the missionaries are winning people over with this religion of acceptance. This is winning over regular Ibo people but especially the outcast, the men who live on the outskirts of town were told they could could be part of their church. They were even told “cut your hair” witch was a big No go for the Ibo people but with this new acceptance movement form Christianity they were eventually accepted. Nwoye will eventually stray from the path of the clan and go forth into the light of god and be accepted

However he no longer goes by that name, he is now Isaac converted and now completely influenced by this new culture. This is how things fall apart. With life and fiction there are many things to set up for things for the world, life, society, culture, anything to fall to ruin. With this novel we see that their culture is dissolving due to the white man influence. Isaacs’s father has disowned him by this part of the book and his family must also disown him for fear of his furry. We eventually see the ideas of another clansman who comes to terms that they are too late to fight off the new influence when he tells Okonkwo, “ “pg. ( ) we are seeing that men of the old way have realized that they can’t do anything about the white man’s influence because due to their customs it is one of the worst crimes to kill a clansman. And with this, that is why Okonkwo was banished in the first part, the accidental murder of a clansman. We see that the flourishment of one culture snuffs the life out of another and we see that today in areas like Israel Palestine that two different culture groups cannot live together because they will want to shove their culture down the throats of others/ have to prove that theirs is right. Much like the missionaries did with the Ibo when they came and told them about their false god and they were not existent and that their ne true all-powerful