Things fall apart 2

Throughout the whole book, Nwoye is referred to as feminine and weak. However, Nwoye just allows himself to feel other emotions than anger like his father. I think that one of the reasons that he converted to Christianity is because he wanted heaven to be a real place so that it could provide a peaceful place where Ikemefuna and the twins would be. The thought of heaven was appealing to him and I think that is what gave him a sense of relief. Going back to how Nwoye is always called weak, he proves this wrong when he decided to convert to Christianity. He is brave enough to completely change his beliefs even though it means extreme disapproval from Okonkwo and a lot of people in the tribe. I also found it interesting that he decided to change his name. I think that Nwoye might have changed his name to completely get rid of his previous culture. We could tell throughout the whole novel that he didn’t accept or approve of his religion, so when another religion came into the picture and sounded somewhat intriguing to him, he decided to fully jump into it no matter what the cost.
 I also don’t like the fact that the Europeans just stomped on into Africa and forced their own religion upon the native populations without trying to understand their lifestyle first. The Europeans didn’t even try to understand the religion of the natives because they didn’t care because they thought that their beliefs were to only right ones and that the others don’t matter at all.
I love how this book gives a different perspective to a story that we’ve only heard one side of. You can’t fully understand a situation until you understand every side in the story.