In Things Fall Apart, written by, Chinua Achebe, two years after Okonkwo exiled, his friend from Umuofia comes urgently to visit. They begin to converse for a while, about how things are in village. Okonkwo is told that Nwoye converts to Christianity and he reacts with fury. Nwoye does not pay attention to his father’s opinion. Nwoye is brave, he questions cultural demands and he stands up for what he believes in.
I believe Nwoye is courageous, unlike the rest of his culture he questions their customs. He does not follow his villages routines and he listens to his own heart. He interrogates the “necessary” murders that his village’s culture enforces “Then something had given away inside him. It descended on him again, this feeling, when his father walked in, that night after killing Ikemefuna”(Achebe, 62). This is significant since the quote displays Nwoye’s sympathy for Ikemefuna, which is considered irregular.
Nwoye strongly argues against the typical Igbo customs. Nwoye denies his father “‘How is your father’ Obierika asked… ‘I don’t know. He is not my father’ said Nwoye, unhappily”(Achebe, 144). After Nwoye realized that his dad killed Ikemefuna, he had no tolerance for his actions. He does not claim his own father because he knows that he could kill his own son over a belief. In Igbo culture it is apalling for a son to talk down on his own father.
In conclusion, Nwoye seems like a dauntless and persistent character. He focuses his chices for the greater good and ignores commands from other people. Nwoye is very compassionate, as seen within the novel. I think later in the book Nwoye might even be able convert some of the villagers beliefs.
I can't see all of your post because there's a glitch and something is blocking it, but I agree with you. Nwoye is brave for converting and becoming something like an outcast. He is courageous for not caring what other people think, even his own father.
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